Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA)
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
Barnet
Hertfordshire
EN4 8HT
England
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Richard Lumb, Education Officer
Telephone
Reception
020 8411 5244
Fax
020 8411 6639
The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) houses what is widely regarded as one of the world's most comprehensive collections of nineteenth and twentieth century decorative arts for the home.
MoDA, often referred to as 'the home of domestic design', provides an invaluable resource for everyone interested in the history of design for the home.
MoDA is part of Middlesex University, and is based at the University's Cat Hill campus.
This museum has a Designated Collection of national importance.
Venue Type:
Museum
Additional info
Transport links:
By Underground - Piccadilly line to Oakwood or Cockfosters, then 15 minute walk or from Oakwood take the shuttle bus from outside the station directly to MoDA.
By Bus - Numbers 298, 299 and 307 to Cat Hill roundabout
By Train - New Barnet, then 307 bus to Cat Hill roundabout.
By Car - From M25 take exit 24 signposted A111 Cockfosters for approximately three miles to Cat Hill roundabout. Access to MoDA is via either Chase Side or Cat Hill. A limited number of parking spaces are available on the Cat Hill Campus.
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
Barnet
Hertfordshire
EN4 8HT
England
Website
Website
Information
Richard Lumb, Education Officer
Telephone
Reception
020 8411 5244
Fax
020 8411 6639
The Silver Studio collection at MoDA is a Designated Collection of national importance.
This is the archive of one of Britain's leading commercial design studios active between 1880 and 1963, and comprises over 40,000 designs on paper, samples, pattern books and an archive of the Studio's letters, diaries, visual reference material, trade cards and other printed ephemera. Its comprehensiveness makes this collection relevant both nationally and internationally for research ranging from business and labour history, to consumption of domestic furnishings, marketing, and the history of design, decoration and studio practice.
The Silver Studio was always responsive to the fashions and tastes of the moment, designing in all the major styles such as the flat stylised Art Nouveau of the late nineteenth century, as well as the perennially popular traditional and historical idiom. Its work provides a vivid insight into pattern design in the English home.
MoDA has an outstanding collection of wallpapers and textiles dating from the 1870s to the 1960s. Other parts of the collection include trade catalogues of furnishers and interior decorators, the Crown Wallpaper Archive and an extensive library of books on design, architecture and town planning collected by the architectural critic, Sir JM Richards. There is a wealth of other material relating to architecture, interior design, typography and printed ephemera, all of which contribute to MoDA's claim to hold collections of outstanding national and international importance.
Collection details
Social History, Design, Decorative and Applied Art, Costume and Textiles, Archives, Architecture
Key artists and exhibits
- Silver Studio
- Crown Wallpaper Archive
- Sir JM Richards library
- Architecture
- Interior design
- Typography
- Printed ephemera
- Trade catalogues of furnishers
- Trade catalogues of interior decorators
- Designated Collection
Collections services
- General guide to collections available
- Object identification and/or written enquiry service
- Public access available to collections information
- Specialist publications on collections available
- Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
Barnet
Hertfordshire
EN4 8HT
England
Website
Website
Information
Richard Lumb, Education Officer
Telephone
Reception
020 8411 5244
Fax
020 8411 6639
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