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6| summer 1997





Editorial 
Wanting everything

Rosemary Hill

Keats and the Grecian urn

Shaun Cole

Corsair slacks and Bondi bathers 
Vinces Man's Shop and the beginnings of Carnaby Street fashion

Ruth Levy

GUI & WYSIWYG 
A history of graphic design software

Grace Lees

Balancing the object 
The reinvention of Alessi

Veli Gran

The collector collector 
Words and images

other things


Hildi Hawkins

Inside-out
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Victoria Kelley

Object lesson
E. Annie Proulx - Accordion Crimes
Fourth Estate, London

Ruth Fainlight

My mother's old leather handbag...
Poem

Jorma Hinkka

Jam today
Zuzana Lickos' Mrs Eaves font

Kate McIntyre

First-name terms
Objects of our Time
Crafts Council Gallery, London
5 December - 16 February 1997
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Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
26 April - 8 June 1997
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Obscure Objects of Desire 
Reviewing the Crafts in the 20th Century
Conference
University of East Anglia, Norwich
10-12 January 1997

Lisa Hirst

Not so new
Christian Dior
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
12 December 1996 - 23 March 1997
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Tribute to Christian Dior
9 February 1997 - September 1997
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Forties Fashion and the New Look
Imperial War Museum, London
12 February - 31 August 1997

E. Annie Proulx

Crossing over
Extract from the novel Accordion Crimes

Harri Kalha

How was it for me?
The Brilliance of Swedish Glass, 1918-1939
An Alliance of Art and Industry
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York
21 November 1996 - 2 March 1997

Clive Wainwright

Histor(icism)ismus
Der Traum vom Gluck: Die Kunst des Historismus in Europa
Kinstlerhaus und Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna
13 September 1996 - 6 January 1997
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Historicism in Russia: Style and Epoch in the Decorative Arts 1820s - 1890s
State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Summer 1996

Sarah Foster

Shiny, shiny
The Silver Galleries
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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Silver: Ed. by Philippa Glanville
V&A Publications, London

Ulrich Lehmann

No room(s) for designer dresses
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Eliza 5.0 and Leena Krohn
Anybody home?

Computer psychology

Steve Baker

Off their ladders
Animal Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
24 January  8 March 1997
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Mark Dion: Natural History and Other Fictions
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
25 January - 31 March 1997
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Kunstverein, Hamburg
19 June - 10 August 1997
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De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
29 August - 19 October 1997

Celia Joicey

End of the century blues
Lionel Lambourne: The Aesthetic Movement
Phaidon Press, London

Stephen Escritt

Picture this
Manchester University Press

Klaus Jrgen Sembach

Art Nouveau 
Utopia: Reconciling the Irreconcilable
Taschen

Ruth Levy

Just my type
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
and Thames & Hudson, New York

Esther Leslie1

Hausbound
Erica Carter: How German is She? Postwar German Reconstruction and the Consuming Woman
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

Hannah Andrassy

True colours
Jamieson & Munro, Perth

Kathleen Jamie

Arraheids
Poem

Katherine Sharp

No shuger no sweetmeats
Oxford University Press

Colette Forder
Immaculate conception

The Persona fertility monitor

Hannah Andrassy

Dummy love
The Cutting Edge: Fifty Years of British Fashion, 1947-1997
6 March - 27 July 1997

Hildi Hawkins

The lone ranger
Poem

Stephen Escritt

Life after Le Corbusier
Charlotte Perriand: Modernist Pioneer
Design Museum, London
24 October 1996 - 13 April 1997

Gavin Stamp

The migration of the telephone kiosk

Lisa Hirst

Hard focus
Contemporary fashion photographs
9 March - 26 May 1997

Charles Rattray

And another thing...
Me and my Jag

Raija Siekkinen
Things

Short story

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