Floor Spread Fragment Victoria And Albert Museum

The victoria albert museum v a in london has salvaged a piece of the sprawling brutalist complex.

Floor spread fragment victoria and albert museum.

Without a context of a dusty floor or a forgotten cupboard where it would have been originally. Victoria and albert museum london view inspiration details. As the united states spread ever westward nashville ceased to be on the frontier and the nickname changed to athens of the south. Given its significance and the imminent demolition at the time it was almost too obvious she tells metropolis.

Fragment of trapezoidal pavement tile tree tin glazed earthenware forlì italy ca 1513 1523. The victoria and albert museum will be putting a three storey section of the estate measuring almost nine metres high more than five metres wide and eight metres deep on display in its galleries. The victoria and albert museum has its origins in the great exhibition of 1851 with which henry cole the museum s first director was involved in planning initially it was known as the museum of manufactures first opening in may 1852 at marlborough house but by september had been transferred to somerset house at this stage the collections covered both applied art and science. Any city where you get off the subway and there s a direct entrance into a museum is a proper city.

Possibly made in burhanpur. Two fragments of floor spread of embroidered cotton with coloured silks in satin stitch. The patterns on both borders consist of undulating pink stems bearing at regular intervals pink roses yellow asters and blue centred flowers interspersed with cone like sprays of flowerets and with serrated green leaves. The victoria albert museum or v a was on my probably worth a quick perv list but i had no idea what i was in for six massive floors of art pilfered from around the world.

The victoria and albert museum london united kingdom. Measuring approximately 380 inches in length by 154 inches in height the met s textile fragments comprise a little less than half the size of this full size floor cover. Casts of the original parthenon s pedimental fragments known as the elgin marbles were purchased from the victoria and albert museum so that sculptors leopold and belle kinney scholz could be as accurate as. Liza fior of london based muf architecture art first proposed the idea.

Parts of a floorspread made late 17th century early 18th century. Example of an intact floor cover from the victoria and albert museum. View in augmented reality.