MoDA Shop Sale

MoDA’s New Year Sale

We are pleased to announce: we are having a sale on Museum stock for the new year. All our books and collections-related souvenirs will be on sale from today till the end of February with discounts of up to 25% and free postage and packing.

To make an order please call the Museum on 020 8411 4394 or email us at moda@mdx.ac.uk

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Petal Power
The Museum’s most recent publication, Petal Power features the work of women employed by the Silver Studio in London between 1910 and 1940. The book explores the hand-drawn and painted textile designs produced by the Silver Studio and maps the printed floral trends they met in inter-war England.

On Sale with free Post and Packing: £7.50
(Usual Price including PP: £9.75)




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MoDA’s Style Guides – all offered with free postage and packing and a 20% discount.


Turn of the Century Style
A fascinating, colourful guide to all aspects of decoration and design in the late-Victorian and early-Edwardian home. Packed with full colour illustrations and photographs, the book shows the choices available to consumers during this period.

On Sale with a 20% discount and free Post and Packing: £7.99
(Usual Price including PP: £12.24)




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Thirtiestyle
Another fascinating and colourful guide to all aspects of decoration and design in the 1930s home. Author, Katie Arber has drawn on MoDA's extensive collection of retail and trade catalogues, domestic magazines and household manuals to produce a vibrant and beautifully illustrated guide to the 1930s interior.

On Sale with a 20% discount and free Post and Packing: £7.99
(Usual Price including PP: £12.24)



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Fiftiestyle
This volume provides a compendium of contemporary illustrations and photographs to show the choices available to consumers decorating their homes in the 1950s. Detailed sections include: chapters on bathrooms and kitchens, fixtures and fittings, furniture, wallpapers and paints, carpets, cushions and upholstery, fireplaces and heating, lighting and finishing touches. All in all, a highly informative and hugely enjoyable read.
On Sale with a 20% discount and free Post and Packing: £7.99
(Usual Price including PP: £12.24)


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Sixtiesyle
Another fascinating and colourful guide to all aspects of decoration and design in the 1960s home. Packed with colour illustrations and photographs, the book shows the choices available to consumers during this period and offers a vibrant account of domestic decoration and style in this decade of revolution and innovation.

On Sale with a 20% discount and free Post and Packing: £7.99
(Usual Price including PP: £12.24)



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Seventiestyle
Author David Heathcote has drawn on MoDA's extensive collection of retail and trade catalogues, domestic magazines and household manuals to produce a beautifully illustrated guide to the 1970s interior: another highly informative and enjoyable read with some wild illustrations.

On Sale with a 20% discount and free Post and Packing: £7.99
(Usual Price including PP: £12.24)




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Woven Splendour
A catalogue that introduces a sumptuous collection of Italian textiles, representing the finest fabrics from the fifteenth century to the present day. The book is richly illustrated and includes essays from experts in the field. More than just an art book, this tome offers a fascinating glimpse of Italian history and the role played by luxury fabrics in displays of wealth, ceremony and power through this period.
On Sale with a 20% discount and free Post and Packing: £5.50
(Usual Price including PP: £9.24)


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Little Palaces
A collection of well-illustrated essays which explore the suburban houses of the 1920s and 30s and their inhabitants’ way of life – an informative and evocative introduction to the suburban semi.

On Sale with a 10% discount and free Post and Packing: £9.89
(Usual Price including PP: £13.24)





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Patterns for Post-War Britain – the Tile Designs of Peggy Angus
Written to accompany MoDA’s exhibition of the same name, this book offers an introduction to Peggy Angus’s highly inventive work and a key chapter in the history of English Modernist design.

On Sale at over 25% discount and free Post and Packing: £5
(Usual Price including PP: £9.24)





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The Silver Studio Collection, A London Design Studio 1880-1963
One of the museum’s earliest publications and a catalogue to one of its first exhibitions, The Silver Studio Collection offers an invaluable introduction to the studio’s work and an important part of MoDA’s archives.

On Sale at over 25% discount and free Post and Packing: £5
(Usual Price including PP: £9.24)




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Popular art – British Wallpapers 1930-1960
A classic text and another Silver Studio Collection exhibition catalogue. A Popular Art explores the popularity of some very modern style in wallpaper designs of the mid twentieth century and so looks at the place of English Modernist Design in popular tastes and consumer culture.

On Sale with a 20% discount and free Post and Packing: £7.99
(Usual Price including PP: £12.24)






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The MoDA Fridge Magnet Collection
Five classic designs from the Museum’s collections reproduced in a form to brighten up your white goods.

On Sale with a 10% discount and free Post and Packing: £3.15
(Usual Price: £3.50 plus £2.25 pp)



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Applying for MoDA's Arthur Silver Award

We ran our first session on Applying for the Arthur Silver Award (Wednesday 25th Jan, 2:00-3:00pm, in the Materials Room of the Sheppard Library).

Final year Art & Design students at Middlesex University met Maggie and Richard from MoDA and me (Peter Thomas, from Academic Writing and Language at Middlesex University).

Together we looked at entries for the competition from the last few years, and discussed what we felt were their strengths and weaknesses.

Here are some of the things we talked about:

• the WOW-factor...how impressive some of the entries look

Wow factor!


• layout...the intriguing ways in which some entries lead you through the processes used in the projects


• legibility of text...how some entries were easier to read than others, and what helped or hindered this

Legibility?


• innovative use of materials in the MoDA collection...it was fascinating to see how differently and cleverly MoDA materials were used


• great preparation for professional life...how entering competitions like this is excellent practice for writing proposals, applying for funding or making pitches

The student take on the entries was fresh and original, with some very preceptive comments and questions. It looks like this year's competition is going to be as lively as ever!

We all feel that the discussions were really interesting, and that they will be helpful as the students prepare their entries for this year's competition over the next few months.

More preparation sessions will be happening soon, on Wednesdays 29^th February and 28^th March, same time, same place. So if you're interested in applying and you'd like the chance to talk about it, come along.

We are all really looking forward to the next workshop...see you there!

last chance to see

This weekend is the last chance to see a great exhibition, entitled William Morris: Story, Memory Myth which is on show at Two Temple Place. It features some amazing embroideries, stained glass and more, designed by William Morris, and based on stories from Arthurian legends and other tales. The collections are from the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, currently being refurbished, but due to reopen this summer.

The exhibition is well worth a visit, and it's also in a really interesting venue.

MoDA job vacancy

If you would like to join the friendly team at MoDA please read on!

We have a vacancy for an Assistant Curator (maternity cover, six month full-time contract).



The role involves facilitating access to the collections of the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) by students and researchers in the museum's Study Room. You will work with colleagues to offer high quality learning experiences relating to the collections.

You will have a good general knowledge of MoDA's collections, and enthusiasm for supporting others in their use. You should have experience of working with museum collections, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

MoDA is part of Middlesex University, and makes its collections available Online, On Tour and On Request. Further information about the museum is available elsewhere on the blog.
For informal enquiries you can contact Zoe Hendon 020 84112341, email z.hendon@mdx.ac.uk




Salary:£25,226 – £28,109 including London Weighting


Location: MoDA Collections Centre, Colindale


Ref: LIB557


Closing date: 29 January 2012
Interview date: on or around 16 February 2012

To apply please download an application form from www.mdx.ac.uk/jobs

Middlesex University is working towards equality of opportunity.

January 'Blues' & Farewell to Paris

January is normally a difficult time for most people coming so soon after Christmas and the New Year. All the celebrations are over and too skint to afford go out. Added to that, the weather is usually freezing so ruling out going for long walks. This time I decided to plan properly and schedule-in entertainment for January way in advance. It also meant that by paying in advance for my treat it ensured bearing illness or other unforeseen mishap, I would be definitely doing something - in this case a day trip to Paris on the Euro Star. So it was with a degree of excitement that I set out for Paris last saturday, ticket in hand.

My excuse for visiting Paris (does one really need an excuse to visit Paris these days?) was to see the 'Cult of Beauty' exhibition at the Musee D'Orsay. The exhibition had transferred from the Victoria & Albert museum with the new title 'Beauty, Morality and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde'. Not only was it was the last week of the exhibition - so my timing was good but also it was the last chance to see the four objects borrowed from the MoDA collections included in the exhibition.

A view of the city through the Musee D'Orsay's clock face window

The exhibition moves on next to San Francisco - without the MoDA objects which return home. I, have memories of a lovely day in the city of lights. Lets hope they are enough to get me through the remaining 3 weeks of January.