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1| winter 1994-95






Editorial 

Isabelle Cartier

The Chesterfield ice-pails: 
Diplomacy, drinking and silverware in the 18th century

Lisa Hirst

The comb as type-object: 
Eighteenth-century hair care

Katherine Sharp

The rise and fall of fitted carpets: 
Carpet production and design in the 19th century

Sarah Foster

The use of personality: 
Alan Walton Textiles and screen-printing in the 1930s

Victoria Kelley

The shop as shop floor: 
A short history of the cash register, 1878-1939

Stephen Escritt

Who are the public? 
The meaning of design for the common good

Ann Kelly

What is a museum object? 
Natural history and the new museology

other things

Hannah Andrassy & Lisa Hirst

Executive games
Designed in One,  Made in the Other:
New Products of Collaboration between Britain and Japan
Design Museum, London
8 March - 5 June 1994

Leonie Stanton

The magpie millionaire
The Burrell Collection
Glasgow

Lettice Slugge

Sarah Foster & Hildi Hawkins
While the Sun Shines: A Comparative Typology of
Haystacks in the Zakopane Region of Southern Poland
Hypothetical Press, London

Leena Krohn

A room of one's own
Extract from Doa Quixote and Other Citizens. Portraits
Translated by Hildi Hawkins

Christopher Breward

The dandy and the beau
Farid Chenoune, A History of Men's Fashion
Flammarion, Paris

Gillian Naylor

Back to the Bauhaus
Bauhaus Dessau
Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau

Hannah Andrassy

Industry in quiet places
Robert Thompson's Craftsmen Limited and the
Mouseman Visitor Centre
Kilburn, North Yorkshire

Sarah Foster

Eating for victory
The Wartime Kitchen and Garden
Imperial War Museum, London
28 October 1993 - 29 August 1994

Celia Joicey

Technology and nostalgia
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey:  Heart and Home
Design Museum, London
18 January - 3 July 1994

Hildi Hawkins

Untrashing Fabergé
Fabergé: Imperial Jeweller
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
26 January - 10 April 1994

Victoria Kelley

From wonder to horror
Science in the Eighteenth Century:
The King George III Collection
Science Museum, London

Eleanor John

These charming fans
The Fan Museum, London

Christopher Frayling

The lessons of ugliness

Jeremy Aynsley

Letter from Cracow
Report on a study visit to Cracow by the
Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art
MA Course in the History of Design, June 1994