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Little Boxes (1980 Film, Video)

Producer

Patrick Uden

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £195

Discusses the changes in modern industrial design brought about by microtechnology and the tendency to house all new domestic and commercial electronic equipment in the ubiquitous ‘black box’. Stephen...

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400 Years of Fashion

Subject

Crafts; Design; History

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 62 minutes), £18.99

The Dress Collection housed in the V&A Museum is not only a spectacular display of costume through the ages, but also an invaluable source of reference, education and inspiration for historians, designers...

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Daniel Libeskind (2014)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £17.99

Daniel Libeskind is one of the most important architects of the 21st century, and one of the most controversial. At once sensual and intellectual, his architecture plays with the geometry of perception. In...

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Keeping Up with the Past: Making Historic Buildings Accessible to Everyone (1998 Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 39 min., 2005 sale: £14.10 (+ p&p)

Shows how improving access for disabled people and conservation principles can be reconciled in historic buildings. Features Kew Bridge Steam Museum, St John’s, Smith Square and the Midland Bank...

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Gordon Benson: Genesis of a Museum (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 40 min. 24 slides. col., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Architect Gordon Benson of Benson Forsyth talks about designing a museum for Edinburgh which reflects the city’s geology, topography, history, development and characteristics; has the genetic structure of...

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New Rijksmuseum, The (2014)

Director

Oeke Hoogendijk

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 131 minutes), $27.95

In 2003, the ambitious renovation of one of the world’s greatest museums began. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, was supposed to reopen its doors in 2008 after five years of construction. But from the start...

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Tempest: Act 2, The (1980 Video)

A performance by the San Francisco Ballet of Act II of The Tempest choreographed by Michael Smuin; music by Seiko Chihara after Purcell with Jean-Louis LeRoux conducting. Attila Ficzere is Prospero.

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Exploring the Differences Between Mass Production and Craft Furniture (1996 Video)

Subject

Crafts

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £35.00 (+p&p)

Furniture maker Jeremy Broun in an illustrated lecture at the Design Museum, London, in May 1996 covers various topics related to craft vs mass-produced furniture: telling the difference; challenging some...

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Time Capsule ‘79

Date released

1979

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

1083

NoS ID

329324

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Australian Vicki Luke visits Simpson’s, the old-established store in London’s Piccadilly, where there was recently an exhibition displaying the work of 26 designers, covering the entire...

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Museums 5: Edinburgh (2000 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, 93 slides. col., 2000 sale: £90.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Slides illustrating architectural aspects of two museums in Edinburgh: the Museum of Scotland by Benson and Forsyth and the Dynamic Earth by Michael Hopkins & Plantness.

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