VISITING VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM by Silvia Colombo

VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

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PLAIN YOUR VISIT

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http://www.vam.ac.uk/features/digitalmap/#l=4&r=

On the 4th floor of the museum are exposed objects that tell the birth of design in the UK.
By clicking on the link you can check the daily programming of the movies in the Film Room.
Very interesting is also the Clore discovery area: it serves to study and deepen the topics.
This also takes time!
Follow the arguments in the other boxes and choose the objects you like to study in more detail.

1. THE GREAT EXHIBITION and THE INTERNATIONAL EXIBITION

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http://www.vam.ac.uk/features/digitalmap/#l=4&r=room122f&o=O18167&d=1
http://www.vam.ac.uk/features/digitalmap/#l=4&r=room122g&o=O78730&d=1
The first argument is the Great Exposition of 1851. Let's take as the symbol object the design of the exhibition pavilion known as Crystal Palace, of which I provide the link of the museum card.

GUIDELINES For each TOPIC it is enough to read the panels of the various sections of the museum; The aspects to consider are personalities, fields of action, materials and techniques and the stylisti.

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6. JAPONISM The shapes of Japanese architecture and furniture were a factor of early development of the "Arts and Crafts" style in England.

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http://www.vam.ac.uk/features/digitalmap/#l=4&r=room125d&o=O69537&d=1

7. LIBERTY INFLUENCE

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http://www.vam.ac.uk/features/digitalmap/#l=4&r=room125g&o=O69051&d=1

3.MORRIS, MARSHALL, FAULKNER & Co.

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http://www.vam.ac.uk/features/digitalmap/#l=4&r=room125f&o=O8439&d=1
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861–1875) was a furnishings and decorative arts manufacturer and retailer founded by the artist and designer William Morris with friends from the Pre-Raphaelites. With its successor Morris & Co. (1875–1940) the firm's medieval-inspired aesthetic and respect for hand-craftsmanship and traditional textile arts had a profound influence on the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century (from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_%26_Co.)

5. THE ARUNDEL SOCIETY

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The Arundel Society was founded at London in 1849 and named after the Earl of Arundel, the famous collector of the Arundel Marbles and one of the first great English patrons and lovers of the arts. The society was originally the idea of the lawyer Bellenden Ker and was founded at a meeting in the house of the famous painter Charles Eastlake, attended by Eastlake, Ker, Giovanni Aubrey Bezzi, and Edmund Oldfield. The society's purpose was to promote knowledge of the art works of the old Italian, Flemish, and other European masters.Much of the work of the society consisted of publishing chromolithographs of Italian art works, especially fresco paintings, of earlier centuries and raising public awareness for the preservation of these works. One of the people most responsible for furthering the goals of the society was Henry Layard, who joined in 1852. Some of the other important early members were John Ruskin, Charles Thomas Newton, and Henry Liddell.
The society was discontinued in 1897. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-23/the-arundel-society-techniques-in-the-art-of-copying/

4.HENRY COLE

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Sir Henry Cole (Bath, July 15, 1808 - London, April 18, 1882) was an English designer and entrepreneur. He was promoter of several projects for design affirmation, published for 3 years the Journal of Design. Strict collaborator of Prince Albert, he organized the great Universal Exhibition of London in 1851. In 1855 he founded the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and was appointed director. He influenced industrial production at that time and formed a group of artists involved in the study of industrial production. He also attributes the merit of having coined the term "Art Manufacturer", meaning with this term a professional figure within the English industry that can be translated into artist-maker that we would call designers today.His career ended with the official appointment of "sole secretary of the department of design". This role allowed him to supervise all English design schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cole

6. MACHINTOSH

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- GLASGOW MOVMENT- SCOTTISH SCHOOL
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow, June 7, 1868 - London, December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer and painter. Exponent of the so-called Glasgow movement, he was the most prominent member of Art Nouveau in the UK.

2. MUSEUM OF MANUFACTURES AND SOUTH KENSINGTON METHOD

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The V&A has its origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851, with which Henry Cole, the museum's first director, was involved in planning; initially it was known as the Museum of Manufactures,^[8] first opening in May 1852 at Marlborough House, but by September had been transferred to Somerset House. At this stage the collections covered both applied art and science.^[9] Several of the exhibits from the Exhibition were purchased to form the nucleus of the collection.^[10] By February 1854 discussions were underway to transfer the museum to the current site^[11] and it was renamed South Kensington Museum
https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/the-va-st

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertopolis