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Room 48 examines changing ideas about how objects should look, and the desire to make well-designed objects available to a wider audience. Many of the objects on display show how designers in the West have drawn inspiration from other cultures, past and present.
Mantelpiece clock by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, AD 1919 More information
Mantelpiece clock by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, AD 1919
Veniamin Pavlovich Belkin, porcelain plate, designed AD 1919, made AD 1920 More information
Veniamin Pavlovich Belkin, porcelain plate, designed AD 1919, made AD 1920
Silver tea-infuser by Marianne Brandt, AD 1925-29 More information
Silver tea-infuser by Marianne Brandt, AD 1925-29
Tea or coffee urn by Eliel Saarinen, AD 1934 More information
Tea or coffee urn by Eliel Saarinen, AD 1934
Highlights include Continental Art Nouveau, Germany’s Darmstadt artists' colony and the Bauhaus, Russian Revolutionary porcelain and American applied arts between the two World Wars.
The Museum is actively collecting objects from the 20th century and the display continues to change as new acquisitions are made.
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Chromium-plated Normandie pitc
The art of glass
History of the Age of Enlightenment, £19.99
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