1999 conference united kingdom

»What's the Object?
Museums of Applied Art Re-Appraised«

Host: Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Programme

Saturday, 6 November 1999


10.10	Registration at the V & A
10:30	Words of Welcome Frances Pugh, Conference Organiser, Education Department V & A
10.35	Introduction Alan Borg, Director V & A
10.45 - 12.45	Session I: Fundamental Influences on the Rise of Applied Art Museum
10.45	Collectors Anthony Burton, Senior Research Fellow in Museology, V & A
11.15	Design Reformers Stefan Muthesius, Dept. of World Art & Museology, University of East Anglia
11.45	Educators Marjan Boot, Curator of Applied Arts, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
	History James M. Bradburne
12.15	Questions and Discussion chaired by Malcolm Baker, Deputy Head, Research Department, V & A
12.45	Lunch
14.15 - 15.15	Session II: How Applied Art Museums Responded to Related Fields
14.45	Science and Industry Sophie Forgan, Principal Lecturer, School of Law, Arts & Humanities, University of Teeside
15.15	Tea
15.45 - 17.00	Session III: How Applied Art Museums Presented Their Message
15.45	Gallery Display Michael Conforti, Director, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
16.15 - 17.00	Discussion with Interventions from a small panel of respondents and contributions from the floor convened by David McFadden, Chief Curator, American Craft Museum, New York, President of ICAA
18.30 - 20.30	Drinks Reception at the Norwegian Embassy

Sunday, 7 November 1999


10.10	Registration
10:30	Welcome Frances Pugh, Conference Organiser, Education Department V & A
10.35	Introduction Alan Borg, Director V & A
10.40 - 12.40	Session IV: Applied Art Museums in Search of Friends
10.40	In the Art Market Rachel Layton, The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London
11.10	In the Entertainment Market Marius Kwint, Lecturer in History of Art; Oxford University
11.40	In the Learning Society David Anderson, Head of Education, V & A
12.10	Question and Discussion chaired by Anniken Thue, Director, Oslo Museum of Applied Art, Vice-President of ICAA
12.40	Lunch
14.15 - 15.15	Session V: The Applied Art Museum as Authority and Taste-Shaper
14.15	The End of Good Taste? Jane Pavitt, Brighton Fellow in Product design, V & A
14.45	A Perspective from the Periphery Sandy Heslop
15.15	Tea
15.45 - 17.00	Session VI: The Applied Art Museum's Commercial Role
15.45	Intervening in the "creative economy" Sara Selwood, Editor "Cultural Trends"
16.15 - 17.00	Discussion with Interventions from a small Panel of Respondents and Contributions from the floor convened by David McFadden

Monday, 8 November 1999

09.00	Breakfast at Contemporary Arts Gallery, 2 Percy Street, London W.1 hosted by Mary Latrobe Bateman, Director
10:15	Registration, V & A
11.20	Welcome David McFadden, President of ICAA
11.30	The V & A: Current Major Projects Alan Borg, Director Gwyn Miles, Head of Major Projects Christopher Wilk, Curator of the British Galleries Project
13.00	Lunch
14.15 - 17.00	Visits that could be chosen:
	1) Storage at Blythe Road and the Museum Archive Visits to the Ceramics Store (Jennifer Opie), the Furniture Store (Sorrel Hershberg), the Museum Archive (Serena Kelly), guided by Jennifer Opie
	2) Records and Storage at South Kensington An Introduction to the V & A's computer documentation system, guided by Frances Lloyd-Baines
	3) South Kensington Gallery Display Styles, 1909 to the present A walkabout ending with the Silver Gallery, guided by Anthony Burton and Malcolm Baker
	4) Design on Paper in the Library and Print Room Focusing on collecting trade literature in the library (Helen Pye-Smith, Paul Shackleton) and, in the Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings, recent work on Renaissance ornament (Elizabeth Millar) and collecting computer-aided design (Jane Pavitt, Shaun Cole)
	Re-Assemblage in the Lecture Theatre
17.00	The V & A in the intellectual marketplace Presentation on research and teaching at the V & A Paul Greenhalgh, Head of Research John Styles, Head of the V & A, RCA postgraduate courses
17.40	The V & A in the commercial marketplace Presentation on the work of V & A Enterprises Michael Cass, Managing Director
18.30 - 20.30	Private View of the exhibition "A Grand Design" with drinks in Room 33, adjoining the exhibition

Tuesday, 9 November 1999

10.15	ICAA General Meeting; V & A Lecture Theatre
11.00	Coffee-Break
11.15	ICAA Marketplace, V & A Lecture Theatre
	Lunch
14.00 - 17.30	Visits that could be chosen:
	1) Contemporary British designers Visits to Ron Arad Studio, Chalk Farm, and to Michael Horsham at Tomato, Soho, guided by Jane Pavitt.
	2) Royal College of Art Guided by Jeremy Aynsley, Director of the V & A, RCA History of Design course, School of Humanities, RCA
	3) City Livery Companies Visit to the Halls of the Goldsmiths Company, the Armourers Company, and the Carpenters Company, guided by Anthony Burton

	4) Hampton Court The work of Historic Royal Palaces, introduced by Sebastian Edwards
17.30	Re-Assemblage at the Theatre Museum; Russel Street, Covent Garden, London WC2
19.00 - 20.15	Reception at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House

Wednesday, 10 November 1999

09.00	Departure to Buxton

12.00	Aston Hall, Birmingham
12.45	Back in the coach
	Lunch on the Coach

15.00	Chatsworth A walk through the public rooms, followed by a behind-the-scenes-tour that could be chosen from 3 possibilities: - Textile conservation, with the Seamstress - Housekeeping, with the Housekeeper - Joiners' workshop and other services Presented by Peter Day, Curator Simon Seligman, Education Manager John Oliver, Comptroller
18.30	Aperitif at Buxton Museum hosted by Derbyshire Country Council and Ros Westwood, Curator
19.30	Arrival at the Palace Hotel, Buxton
20.00	Dinner at the hotel

Thursday, 11 November 1999

09.00	Departure from Buxton
09.45 - 11.00	The Round Building, Hathersage. David Mellor's cutlery factory and shop received by David Mellor, Fiona MacCarthy, Corin Mellor
11.35 - 11.50	Sutton Scarsdale received by Lucy Worsley (English Heritage)
12.00 - 14.15	Bolsover Castle guided tour by Lucy Worsley
	Lunch in Bolsover Castle Visitor Centre

14.30 - 16.00	Hardwick Hall Textile collection introduced by Santina Levey, former Keeper of Textiles at the V & A. Short Presentations on the plasterwork by Gill White, Curator of Hardwick Hall and on the furniture by Rhiannon Johns (V & A, RCA Course)
17.00 - 18.30	Calke Abbey A tour of the shadows organised by John Parkinson, House Manager
18.30 - 20.30	Dinner in the Calke Abbey Restaurant

Friday, 12 November 1999

09.30	Departure from Buxton
	Lunch on the coach
13.30	Waddesdon Manor received by Philippa Glanville, Director
16.30 - 18.00	Coach back to London; V&A
	End of the Conference