Seminar success at Arnolfini
Bettina Langlois2023-04-12T16:24:28+01:00Marketing Design and Craft in Post War Britain
On Saturday 5 March, speakers from Newcastle, Brighton, Farnham and Cambridge came to Arnolfini […]
The Future is Here: The Swinging Sixties
Oliver Kent2022-03-04T19:58:18+00:00Saturday 26 June – Saturday 25 September 2021
The 1960s were exciting times. The range of goods for the British home interior blossomed, emerging from the restrictions left over from the Second World War and embracing […]
Don’t Miss ‘Making Joy: Fire and Ice’
Oliver Kent2021-06-15T19:07:05+01:00Celebrating Bristol’s long history of making beautiful glass we are shining a spotlight on this exciting world of ‘fire and ice’. The Ken Stradling Collection at 48 Park Row, Bristol are using […]
Julia Donnelly spills the glass beads! All you need to know about lampworking
Oliver Kent2021-06-17T15:52:16+01:00Glass jewellery maker Julia Donnelly writes about the making of her delightful beads. Lampwork is an ancient skill and a process ideally suited to small workshop practice. Her work is featured in the […]
Bauhaus in Bristol – Otti Berger
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:58:50+01:00It appears that Bristol furniture manufacturer Crofton Gane, whose work with Bauhaus designer Marcel Breuer is well known, considered employing leading Bauhaus graduate textile designer Otti Berger to work for him.
Bauhaus and Beyond
Oliver Kent2022-01-20T16:38:42+00:00Student responses to the Bauhaus
29 February – 28 March 2020 (was cancelled due to Coronavirus from 18 March)
As part of our Bauhaus in Bristol season we invited students to create […]
Breuer in Bristol Symposium review
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:51:49+01:002019 is the centenary of the founding of Bauhaus in Weimar and there are lots of exhibitions and events worldwide not to mention documentaries and new books. At the restored second Bauhaus in Dessau you […]
Breuer in Bristol Symposium
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:51:14+01:00The Breuer in Bristol Symposium at Arnolfini went very well indeed. Speakers included Christopher Wilk, Keeper of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A, design historians Alan Powers, Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, Oliver Kent, […]
Bristol home of Gill Sans typeface
Oliver Kent2021-06-16T12:50:29+01:00In 1926 Bristol bookseller and printer Douglas Cleverdon asked his friend Eric Gill to paint a shop-sign for him. The lettering that resulted was seen in 1927 by Stanley Morison of Monotype Corporation who asked […]