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Thanks to @cerealmag for a brilliant article about our exhibition. Go to their feed and find the link, it's a great read with excellent photos.Yay, just had our 800th visitor this morning! #bauhaus #breuer#moderndesign#bristolOur latest exhibition Bauhaus in Bristol celebrates the relationship between Bristol furniture manufacturer Crofton Gane and Bauhaus designer Marcel Breuer in the 1930s. Gane allowed Breuer to completely remodel and refurnish his own home as well as designing an iconic Pavilion for the Royal Show in 1936. The Gane business was destroyed in the Blitz in 1940. Crofton reopened a small shop at 87 Park St and kept going on a small scale until 1954. Now the lovely Friska who coincidentally provided the coffee for our Symposium at the Arnolfini. Nice link. #bauhaus100 #bauhaus100years #bauhaus #artcollection #bristolart #ksc #bristolexhibition #kenstradling #stradlingcollection. #bristolfestivalofideas #marcelbreuer #breuerfurniture #Marcelbreuerfurniture @arm olfiniarts @stradlingcollection @friskafood More details of the show and associated events on out website.All in black - Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius’s iconic TAC teapot designed in 1969. Our current exhibition Bauhaus in Bristol celebrates the relationship between Bristol furniture manufacturer Gane and Bauhaus furniture designer Marcel Breuer in the second half of the 1930s. Come and see it soon. #bauhaus100 #bauhaus100years #bauhaus #artcollection #bristolart #ksc #bristolexhibition #kenstradling #stradlingcollection #waltergropius #waltergropiusdesign #tacteapot #bristolfestivalofideas #marcelbreuer #breuerfurniture #Marcelbreuerfurniture @b_a_u_h_a_u_s @bauhaus_dessau_foundation @bauhaus_archiv More details of this and associated events on out website.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Sam Smith’s work at The Beales Bequest exhibition
There are many playful, colourful and humorous items on display in The Beales Bequest exhibition. This includes the pieces by Sam Smith. There is one of his fishing boats from the 1970s, made of wood and enamel-painted. Accompanying this is … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts, Toys
Tagged Boats, Design, Edwin La Dell, Exhibition, Sam Smith, sculpture, The Secret Harbour, Victor Stuart Graham, wood
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Bertoia’s Diamond Chair in ‘The Beales Bequest’ exhibition
Harry Bertoia, an Italian-American sculptor, university lecturer and furniture designer, created The Diamond Chair in 1952 for the firm Knoll International. It comprises of a series containing a small and large version of the chair, a chair with an raised … Continue reading
Posted in Furniture
Tagged Art, Bertoia, Bristol, Chair, Colin Beales, Design, Design Study Centre, Diamond Chair, Exhibition, Furniture, Jennifer Beales, Knoll International, Twentieth century
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Etchings in ‘The Beales Bequest’ exhibition
Dispersed among the beautiful array of objects in the current exhibition, The Beales Bequest, at The Ken Stradling Collection are clusters of Jennifer Beales’ own artworks. She made many oil paintings and etchings, particularly during the 1970s and 80s when … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Beales Bequest, Bristol, Design, Drawings, Etchings, Exhibition, Jennifer Beales, oil painting, Prints, Travel
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The opening of The Beales Bequest exhibition
On Saturday 10 January, The Ken Stradling Collection will be holding a private view of their latest exhibition, The Beales Bequest. This exhibition revolves around the eclectic objects that a Bristol architect and founding trustee of The Ken Stradling Collection … Continue reading
1 Redcliffe Street, Bristol. 1960’s publicity photographs.
I Redcliffe Street the first tower office block in Bristol and is regarded by some as Bristol’s best building of its time. Designed as the headquarters of the Dickinson Robinson Group of paper and packaging manufacturers, it was designed by … Continue reading
