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Simon Martin's Louis Ghost Chair installation premieres at The Holburne Museum in Bath
Installation artist Simon Martin's latest short film, Louis Ghost Chair, uses the original design of the Louis XV chair as a starting point before looking at its modern reinterpretations.
Terence Conran – The Way We Live Now at his Design Museum in London
From his time as a design student to setting up Habitat, a major survey of Terence Conran's life at the Design Museum he founded is a lesson in entrepreneurial dexterity.
In Pictures: The London Design Festival 2011 takes over the V&A, Geffrye Museum and more
Scandinavian sofas, micro flora in the kitchen, potter parades and a spiral staircase at St Paul's Cathedral as the ninth year of the annual festival takes over most of London.
Enclosures: Charles Matton's miniature worlds at All Visual Arts
Thirty undiscovered "boites" make up the first major retrospective of the enigmatic French artist Charles Matton at All Visual Arts.
Latest works by top object designers star in Sitting and Looking at Somerset House
Rhiannon Starr finds furniture, ceramics, coloured glass and filters of oil in a ten-artist show in London.
At Home in Japan: Going Beyond the Minimal House and into the Geffrye Museum
In a bid to question the stereotype of minimalist Japanese living, Dr Inge Daniels spent a year looking at 30 houses in the Kansai region of the country. Her findings go on display in an exotic......
Robin and Lucienne Day lead the way in post war design at Pallant House Gallery
The most celebrated designer couple of the post-war years are celebrated with a fine exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.
Hull Traders and Shirley Craven take designs which changed perceptions to Harris Museum
Swish fabric and furniture design from the pioneering textile company at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston.
Fitzwilliam scores coup with rare Hendrik ter Brugghen painting and Louis XIV cabinet
Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum has added two important works to its collection in deals totalling more than £740,000.
Pallant House's Staircase to design heaven in Sussex
Since 2006, Chichester's Pallant House has been commissioning artists to redesign its 18th century stairwell. Kirstie Brewer takes a look back at the dazzling stars, mussel shells and international......
Donald Judd demonstrates A Good Chair is a Good Chair with more than 30 pieces at Ikon
Donald Judd's show in Birmingham shows the US sculptor's furniture, not art. There is a difference, discovers Mark Sheerin.
Curiouser and Curiouser: The world of Alice in Wonderland gets reshaped in Tunbridge Wells
Artists delve through a costume collection to reimagine the World of Alice in Wonderland at Tunbridge Wells Museum.
Geffrye Museum Christmas tree reveals the festive wishes of young Londoners
A Cultural Olympiad project sees young Londoners add their Christmas wishes to Geffrye Museum's 'Wishmas' tree.
Textiles show unseen side of Henry Moore's art in Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts exhibition
An impressive display at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich shows the fabric finesse of Henry Moore, says Ivan Stoyanov.
Museum of Croydon shows beautiful benefits of recycling in Treasures from Trash summer show
Lightshades made from speakers and bags made from records are the stuff of the South London site's new show.
