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SUMMARY:Romek Marber (1925-2020): The Man who Vowed Never to Return
DESCRIPTION:Romek Marber is probably most famous for the design of over seventy book covers for the Penguin Crime series in the 1960s as well as for the development of the Marber grid which made the layout of Penguin cover pages consistent across titles. \nHowever\, even most people who knew him had little idea of his back story. This was to change in 2010 with the publication of his memoirs of pre-WWII life growing up in a small town in Poland and his survival as a Jew under Nazi occupation. The title of his memoirs is No Return: Journeys in the Holocaust. World War II broke out when Romek was thirteen. By the end of the war he had survived life in the Bochnia ghetto\, experienced the disappearance of his twin sister\, mother and grandparents (to be murdered in Belzec)\, slave labour in concentration camps and being left for dead with typhus in a pigsty in Bavaria. After liberation Romek spent a year as a Displaced Person in Italy until he was finally able to join his surviving brother and father in the UK. In due course he would establish himself as one of Britain’s most talented and distinctive graphic designers. \nRomek’s niece\, Elaine Sinclair (born Marber)\, will provide background on Romek’s family and life in Poland and his experiences during WWII. Romek wrote his memoirs\, initially for the family\, as a result of her persuasion. She is an occupational psychologist. \nHer lifelong friend Naomi Games\, who also knew Romek well\, will describe Romek’s career and present some of his work. Naomi is the daughter of designer Abram Games. She has worked for many adult and children’s publishers and has written sixteen books\, including six about her father\, as well as producing a film on him and running his archive. \n  \nTo book\, click here. \n\nImage: Profile of Romek Marber\, Copyright Romek Marber Estate
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/romek-marber-1925-2020-the-man-who-vowed-never-to-return/
CATEGORIES:Design,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250619T193000
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SUMMARY:In the English Tradition? Rima Model Gowns in the 1940s
DESCRIPTION:In 1939\, Leo and Greta Neumann established the fashion business ‘Rima Model Gowns’ at 8 St. George Street\, Hannover Square\, London. Within just a few years\, Rima became one of London’s leading wholesale couture firms. The couple worked closely with established English textile mills and innovative modern émigré textile designers to produce their garments and were known internationally for their quintessentially ‘English’ garments with a twist. \nThe Neumanns’ success was achieved despite incredibly difficult circumstances. The couple\, as Austrian Jewish émigrés\, escaped Hitler’s regime in 1938 and faced many challenges upon arrival in England. Through garments and archival material\, this paper recreates the remarkable story of one of London’s most significant fashion businesses of the 1940s and its founders. \nLiz Tregenza is a lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at London College of Fashion and runs her own vintage business. She is the author of Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond\, 1930-1970 (2023) and co-editor of Everyday Fashion: Interpreting British Clothing since 1600 (2023). She was awarded her PhD by the University of Brighton in 2018. \nImage: Conker colour wool suit jacket by Rima made for export\, 1941 \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/in-the-english-tradition-rima-model-gowns-in-the-1940s/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250617T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250617T193000
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SUMMARY:'The Ark': Wedgwood and European Refugees\, 1933 -1945
DESCRIPTION:Between 1933-1945\, thousands of European refugees escaping Nazi persecution sought refuge in Britain. Due to an apathetic British Government\, assistance for refugees was the responsibility of individuals\, organisations\, and businesses\, such as Wedgwood. Unfortunately\, their efforts of the latter have remained unexplored\, as have the stories of those arriving into their care. Through archival material and collections held at the V&A Wedgwood Collection\, this talk by Michael Ruddy will reveal how the Wedgwood Family and Company worked resolutely to help those being oppressed across Central Europe. \nMichael Ruddy is an Assistant Curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection\, situated in Barlaston\, Stoke-on-Trent. He joined the V&A from Arts Council England\, where he worked in the ELU and GIS teams. He has also worked at Leonard Cheshire\, supporting the digitisation of the Charity’s historically important sound collection\, and at Boughton House cataloguing the Buccleuch Collections. Michael has completed a BA History degree from the University of Derby and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester. In addition to ceramics\, his other research interest is the role of museums in social justice and representation. \nImage: Terracotta Bust of Ulla Goodman\, ca. 1940 \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-ark-wedgwood-and-european-refugees-1933-1945/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T180000
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SUMMARY:Crossed Wires\, Broken Lines: Ernst Schoen and Charlotte Wolff
DESCRIPTION:Professor Esther Leslie and Dr Sam Dolbear\, co-authors of the 2023 book Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century\, will first talk about the life of Ernst Schoen (1894-1960)—poet\, composer\, radio programmer\, theorist\, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood—as he moves between Frankfurt\, Berlin\, Paris\, and London. Through friendship and comradeship\, a position in state-backed radio\, imprisonment\, exile\, networking in a new country\, re-emigration\, ill-treatment\, neglect\, Schoen suffers the century and articulates its broken promises. \nSam Dolbear will then discuss his latest project\, on Charlotte Wolff (1897–1986)—a friend of Walter Benjamin\, Helen Grund and also Ernst Schoen⁠—a doctor who\, after fleeing Germany in 1933\, took up hand reading in Paris to make ends meet. She read the hands of anonymous members of certain professions—acrobats\, dancers\, and department-store managers—but also members of the surrealist and modernist avant-gardes of Paris and London: from Antonin Artaud to Romola Nijinsky to Marcel Duchamp to Virginia Woolf. His book Hand That Touch This Fortune Will:  A history and theory of hand reading (After Charlotte Wolff) is forthcoming with Ma Bibliothèque. \nSchoen and Wolff were friends in the early 1920s and both made it to London\, the former in 1933\, the latter in 1936. The session will address their differing experience of exiled life and their feelings about ‘returning’ to Germany after the end of the war – Schoen going back in 1947 on a BBC mission and\, permanently\, in 1951 and Wolff only twice\, for two short trips\, with great nervousness. \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/crossed-wires-broken-lines-ernst-schoen-and-charlotte-wolff/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,Music,What's On
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SUMMARY:Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture
DESCRIPTION:Otti Berger (1898-1944) was a hugely talented Jewish textile designer\, born in present-day Croatia\, who both studied and taught at the Bauhaus in Dessau\, Germany. She found temporary refuge in the UK in 1937-8 but failed to thrive here\, and ultimately perished in Auschwitz. \nBerger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus\, she also was a female entrepreneur in the frenzied time that was the early 1930s in Berlin. Yet to date Berger’s textile work has only been explored in fragments. \nTo mark the publication by Hatje Cantz of a major new book entitled Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture\, Berlin-based artist Judith Raum\, the book’s contributing editor\, will talk about this challenging yet rewarding project. The book is the first comprehensive study of the complexity and beauty of Berger’s work and makes her treatise on fabrics and the methodology of textile production accessible in full for the first time. It also highlights the largely unrecognized significance of textiles in the history of architecture and design. Judith will be joined by British design historian Tanya Harrod\, author of the chapter about Berger’s time in England. \n  \nTo book\, click here \nFrom 12 March until 24 August\, the temporary bauhaus-archiv in Berlin will play host to an installation by Judith Raum\, also entitled Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture. The exhibition features a new video piece alongside two large scale wall-spanning fabrics.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/otti-berger-weaving-for-modernist-architecture/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Lubetkin and Goldfinger: Misunderstood Visionaries?
DESCRIPTION:Russian-born Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) and Hungarian-born Ernö Goldfinger (1902-1987) established themselves as two leading British architects who designed high-rise council housing after the Second World War; a type of building that now holds a poor reputation. \nLubetkin built one of the earliest post-war estates in London\, Spa Green in Finsbury\, while Goldfinger designed the last and most notorious council block in the city\, Trellick Tower in North Kensington. Although both architects were communist Jewish migrants from central Europe who shared much in common\, they were rivals who disliked each other. Their reputations suffered with the physical decline of their buildings and from their sometimes less than pleasant personalities. \nYet they were both idealists\, dedicated to building the best possible homes for ordinary people. Lubetkin and Goldfinger: The Rise and Fall of British High-Rise Council Housing by Nicholas Russell\, recently published by Book Guild Publishing Ltd\, aims to shine a light on the overlooked work of these two visionary architects and give them the credit they undoubtedly deserve. \nIn this session\, which will be chaired by Dr.Anna Nyburg\, Nicholas Russell will set this aspect of the two men’s work in a wider context\, both of their own colourful lives and careers and of the history of 20th century British architecture. \nNicholas Russell was a university reader in Science Communication and a college lecturer in Biology and History of Technology. Having had a lifelong interest in art and design\, he now works as a heritage volunteer and spent several seasons as a National Trust guide at Erno Goldfinger’s house in Hampstead. His book on industrial invention and design through a history of the manufacturing firm Russell Hobbs\, Household Names\, was published in 2021. Nicholas lives in Bath \n  \nBooking link here\nImage: book cover
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/lubetkin-and-goldfinger-misunderstood-visionaries/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231107T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231107T193000
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SUMMARY:Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style
DESCRIPTION:Lucie Whitmore and Bethan Bide\, curators of Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style\, which opens at the Museum of London Docklands on 13 October and runs until 14 April 2024\, will talk about this exciting new show\, with particular emphasis on the 1930s émigrés. For the first time\, this exhibition will uncover the major contribution of Jewish designers in making London an iconic fashion city. \nDiscover the stories behind the Jewish fashion makers who became leaders in their industries\, founded retail chains still on the high street today\, and dressed the rich and famous – including David Bowie\, Princess Diana and Mick Jagger. Learn about the contribution of key figures\, such as renowned wedding dress designer Netty Spiegel\, master milliner Otto Lucas\, the epitome of British flamboyance Mr Fish\, and living legend David Sassoon. \nFashion City brings together places and spaces in London with fashion and textiles\, oral histories\, objects and photography to weave this fascinating history\, where every stitch tells a truly unique story. \nThe event will be chaired by design historian Dr. Anna Nyburg\, author of The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade and held in partnership with Jewish Renaissance magazine. \nTo book\, click here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/fashion-city-how-jewish-londoners-shaped-global-style/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230515T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230515T193000
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SUMMARY:My Disappearing Uncle
DESCRIPTION:On Monday 15 May at 6pm\, children’s author\, artist\, illustrator and printmaker Kathy Henderson will be in conversation with Daniel Snowman about her new book\, My Disappearing Uncle: Europe\, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family. Memoir\, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography\, told through the stories passed down by its undaunted women. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: book cover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/my-disappearing-uncle/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Lectures,What's On
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SUMMARY:Isokon Ltd: Symposium
DESCRIPTION:On April 21\, the Yale Center for British Art is holding one-day online symposium about Isokon Ltd\, the 1930s design company that commissioned one of the Britain’s first modernist buildings\, and an iconic range of plywood furniture by émigré designers including Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius. The symposium will explore all aspects of Isokon’s design output in the 1930s\, and its place within the creative and intellectual milieu operating in London between the World Wars. \nFor further information\, click here. \nImage: Isokon Flats\, Hampstead by Wells Coates 1934\, photographed circa 1978 by Kenneth J. Gill
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/isokon-ltd-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Artforms,Design,Educational events,Symposia,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230304T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230304T153000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Bernat Klein: Design in Colour
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday 4 March at 2pm\, prompted by the exhibition Bernat Klein: Design in Colour showing at the National Museum of Scotland\, Edinburgh\, its curator Lisa Mason and Dr. Anna Nyburg will explore the work of two revolutionary émigré textile designers\, Bernat Klein and Tibor Reich\, who both arrived in the UK as refugees fleeing Nazi Europe and went on to revolutionise British design. This live event also features an exclusive screening of the 2017 documentary film\, Refuge Britain: Stories of Émigré Designers. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: Sample of tweed entitled Aurora\, woven in multiply wool slub and multiply wool and polyester and wool yarns\, in light and dark blue\, orange\, red\, pink\, purple and green (1964–65). © Bernat Klein.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/talk-bernat-klein-design-in-colour/
LOCATION:National Museum Scotland\, Chambers Street\, Edinburgh\, Mid Lothian\, EH1 1JF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Film,Film screenings,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230216T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230216T180000
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SUMMARY:Bernat Klein: Colour Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Mason will introduce designer and colour consultant Bernat Klein (1922-2014) and the extensive archive of his work held by National Museums Scotland. Klein was displaced from his country of birth by the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and went on to produce innovative fashion fabrics for the couture houses of Europe and to work on important interior design commissions. Klein will be situated within the context of a wider cohort of émigré designers practicing in post-war Britain.  \nLisa Mason is Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary Design at National Museums Scotland\, Chair of the Dress and Textile Specialists\, and a Trustee of the Bernat Klein Foundation. Her research interests include textile design in post-war Britain\, modern tapestry\, and design archives. She is the curator of Bernat Klein: Design in Colour\, currently on show at the National Museum of Scotland\, Edinburgh until 23 April.  \nThis event will be chaired by design historian Dr.Anna Nyburg\, author of a book on the émigré contribution to British art publishing and another on the refugees’ contribution to British fashion. Two of her essays appeared in Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture. She has also co-produced a film about refugee designers entitled ‘Refuge Britain’\, which will be screened at the National Museum of Scotland on 4 March.  \nTo book\, click here \nImage: Sample of tweed entitled Aurora\, woven in multiply wool slub and multiply wool and polyester and wool yarns\, in light and dark blue\, orange\, red\, pink\, purple and green (1964–65). © Bernat Klein. With permission National Museums Scotland.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/bernat-klein-colour-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221116T180000
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SUMMARY:Ian McLaren: Stories of a Graphic Designer
DESCRIPTION:Penguin Books\, the Munich Olympic Games and Refugee Connections: Ian McLaren in conversation with Anna Nyburg about his life and work \nOn Wednesday 16 November at 6pm\, graphic designer Professor Ian McLaren will talk to design historian Dr.Anna Nyburg about his illustrious career at Penguin Books and beyond. \nIan McLaren has had a rich and varied career starting during the pre-digital days of graphic design. He took the unusual step of studying at the Ulm School in Germany\, based on Bauhaus principles\, despite knowing no German. Celebrated for his work at the 1972 Olympic Games\, he also worked widely in the field of book design\, for Penguin Books and beyond\, where he came into contact with celebrated designers such as Italian-born Mauthausen survivor Germano Facetti and Polish-born Holocaust survivor Romek Marber. He will also talk about his professional and personal encounters with émigré artists and designers\, Francis Carr\, FHK Henrion and Willy de Mayo. \nProfessor Ian McLaren attended the influential Ulm School of Design and in the 1960s designed material for CND\, The National Theatre and The Arts Council. He also designed many book covers for Penguin and Puffin before joining the Munich team in 1970. After Munich he moved to Paris\, where his practice designed visual identities for UNESCO\, Lyon Metro and the Centre Culturelle Georges Pompidou. He later went on to teach at various universities including the Glasgow School of Art and De Montfort Universities. \nDr. Anna Nyburg is an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London\, where she taught languages for some 30 years. She is a committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies and a trustee of the Insiders/Outsiders Arts Foundation.. She is the author of a biography of the émigré artist Hellmuth Weissenborn\, a book on the émigré contribution to British art publishing and another on the refugees’ contribution to British fashion. Two of her essays appeared in Insiders/outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture. She has also co-produced a film about refugee designers entitled ‘Refuge Britain.’ \n  \nImage: Pelican book covers by Ian McLaren
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/talk-graphic-designer-professor-ian-mclaren/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220629T180000
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SUMMARY:Erna Pinner's Graphic and Literary Production in London Exile: An Example of Cultural and Ideological Transference
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 29 June at 6pm\, Dolors Sabaté Planes will give an online talk entitled ‘Erna Pinner’s Graphic and Literary Production in London Exile: An Example of Cultural and Ideological Transference’. The seminar focuses on German-born artist Erna Pinner’s graphic and literary work\, with particular emphasis on how the ideological discourse that influenced her work during the interwar period was transferred to her artistic production during her years of exile in London. This event is organised by the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, University of London. \nTo register\, click here. \nImage: Erna Pinner\, Mounted Puppet from Das Puppenbuch\, 1921 (public domain\, via Wikimedia Commons)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/erna-pinners-graphic-and-literary-production-in-london-exile-an-example-of-cultural-and-ideological-transference/
CATEGORIES:Design,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220609T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220609T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192334
CREATED:20220228T122306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220531T103715Z
UID:10001013-1654799400-1654799400@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Remembering Ervin Bossányi\, Stained Glass Artist
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday 9 June at 6.30pm\, tribute will be paid to Hungarian-born stained glass artist Ervin Bossányi\, best known for the windows he created for Canterbury Cathedral. Taking part are his granddaughter Ilona Bossányi\, Alfred Fisher\, who worked with Bossányi in London as a young man\, stained glass expert Caroline Swash and Revd. Jonathan Evens\, an expert on modern religious art and interfaith issues. This live event is a partnership between Insiders/Outsiders and the Hungarian Cultural Centre\, London and will be chaired by Monica Bohm-Duchen. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: Ervin Bossányi
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/remembering-ervin-bossanyi-stained-glass-artist/
LOCATION:Liszt Institute London\, 17-19 Cockspur Street\, London\, SW1Y 5BL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Design,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220228T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220228T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192334
CREATED:20220130T104733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220130T104800Z
UID:10000998-1646078400-1646078400@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Making\, Tracing: A Journey Back From England to the Polish Stetl
DESCRIPTION:David Jones\, Dark Noise\, 2014\nTalk by David Jones about his discovery that his creative work in clay & installation has become a medium for expressing his Jewish heritage \nA Conversation with Ceramic Artist David Jones\nDavid Jones’ mother was born in Germany\, and escaped the fate of her parents in the murder camps\, by leaving on the Kindertransport to the UK. He was aware from an early age of that history\, but it did not intrude on his life in the latter half of the 20th Century. It has only been in recent years that this fact has been pressing hard on his awareness. \nDavid’s ceramic work has always featured cuts\, cracks and distortions\, that subsequently only started to make sense to him with such an interpretation. Grenzerfahrung was the name (meaning “Borderline experience”) that he gave to the liminal conditions between a conscious understanding and intuitive feeling for meaning in the work: the burnt\, blackened clay surfaces that could be summoned to stand for the destinies of his ancestors and relatives; the appalling synergy between the potter’s kiln and the ovens of the Holocaust. \nHe will also discuss a range of positive outcomes that have evolved through working collaboratively with groups in Germany and Latvia that focus on meeting\, hospitality and rapprochement. \nThe session will be chaired by art historian Julia Weiner\, who co-curated Shaping Ceramics\, an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum\, London in 2016-17\, which included David’s work. \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/making-tracing-a-journey-back-from-england-to-the-polish-stetl/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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LOCATION:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/making-tracing-a-journey-back-from-england-to-the-polish-stetl/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220120T144500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220120T144500
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20220112T095257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220112T095320Z
UID:10000994-1642689900-1642689900@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Engineer Refugees from Nazism in Britain and their innovations
DESCRIPTION:Image: British Advertisement for Metalastik\nCentre for Languages\, Culture and Communication \nSherfield Building Level 3\, South Kensington Campus Imperial College \nEngineering was done differently in Germany than in the UK. In Germany there was and still is\, a certain kudos to being addressed as ‘Herr Diplom Ingenieur’. The International organisations that engineer refugees belonged to helped them integrate into work and life more easily than other professional groups of refugees. They were therefore able to make a real contribution to the war effort with their inventions\, just one example the new bonded material supplied by Metalistik that prevented vibrations in planes and trains. And they were forward thinking\, bringing much more innovation to British life post-war. \nThis CLCC Research Seminar will be given by Anna Nyburg and delivered at the CLCC (in-person) and online simultaneously. Two ticket types are available: online (unlimited) and face-to-face (limited). Please select whether participating online or in-person to confirm your place. \nNB. Should COVID-19 restrictions mean that face-to-face delivery of the seminar is not possible\, the event will go ahead online only. \n  \nTo register for this free event\, book here. \n 
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/engineer-refugees-from-nazism-in-britain-and-their-innovations/
LOCATION:Imperial College\, Centre for Languages\, Culture and Communication Sherfield Building Level 3\, South Kensington Campus Imperial College\, London\, SW7\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211012T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211012T140000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20211003T102247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T083508Z
UID:10000979-1634047200-1634047200@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 12 October at 2pm\, as part of Platforma 6and in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders\, Anna Nyburg\, design historian and author of The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revolutionised the British Fashion Trade will discuss the contribution of refugees\, primarily Jewish\, to the British textile\, fashion and design industries in the 1930s and beyond\, with a particular focus on those who settled and worked in Yorkshire. She will be joined by Jill Winder\, Associate Curator (Decorative Art and Artefacts) at Leeds University Library\, who will introduce parts of their collection relating to displacement and conflict. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: Bookcover (detail) \n Counterpoints Arts
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-clothes-on-our-backs/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures
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LOCATION:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-clothes-on-our-backs/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210628T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211224T163000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20210731T115534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T115643Z
UID:10000948-1624874400-1640363400@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Colour\, Texture & Destination
DESCRIPTION:Borders Textile Towerhouse\, Hawick\nAn exhibition celebrating the creative and cultural legacy of Bernat Klein (1922-2014); an inspired colourist\, textile designer and artist who won international acclaim for the dazzling textural designs he produced in the Scottish Borders from the 1950s to the 1990s. \nThis exhibition presents original pieces by Bernat Klein\, which in turn have inspired new work\, capturing the vibrancy of Bernat Klein’s legacy. Featured are prize winning students from the Fashion Communication and Design for Textiles programmes from the School of Textiles & Design\, Heriot-Watt University. The exhibition also showcases the Spring/Summer 2021 collection ‘High Sunderland’ by the Scottish menswear designer Kestin Hare\, inspired by Bernat Klein’s modernist home in the Scottish Borders. To book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/colour-texture-destination/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Exhibitions,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210610T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20210510T150311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210602T133432Z
UID:10000942-1623348000-1623353400@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Torn Threads: Aspects of the Life and Work of Textile Designer Otti Berger
DESCRIPTION:Image: Portrait of Otti Berger / Photo: Lucia Moholy\, Dessau 1927–1928\nOnline Event \n\nJudith Raum\, a Berlin-based visual artist\, has been researching the legacy of textile designer Otti Berger (1898-1944) for several years. As a Yugoslav Jew\, Berger\, who had trained at the Bauhaus\, was forced to leave the German Reich\, where she had run her own textile studio in Berlin\, and unsuccessfully tried to make a new life in Great Britain. She returned to her home village of Zmajevac\, where although cut off from her professional networks\, she continued to work before being deported by the Nazis and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.  \nConsequently\, her estate lies scattered in archives over the world. She was an outstanding designer\, both of experimental handweaves and of industrially produced fabrics. In Raum’s own words\, “There is an extraordinary strength in Berger’s designs for functional textiles such as upholstery or wall spanning materials: it lies in the combination of sensual riches and conceptual clarity. In addition\, Berger’s practice is characterized by resolutely balancing experimentation on a hand-loom with the necessities of industrial production processes.” \nIn her lecture- cum-performance\, originally drafted for the Harvard Art Museums\, Judith Raum contemplates the significance of a special kind of fabric in Berger’s oeuvre – net-like textiles – which allows her to draw a richly rhizomatic net of connections – among them\, to the work of Berger’s colleagues and industrial design history of the 1930s\, as well as to questions of authorship and recognition. \nJudith Raum will be joined by eminent UK-based design historian Tanya Harrod\, who will chair the event and say more about Otti Berger’s time in England.  \n  \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/torn-threads-aspects-of-the-life-and-work-of-textile-designer-otti-berger/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Fine Art,Lectures,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210505T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20210326T145939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210424T114135Z
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SUMMARY:The Refugees who made the Festival of Britain
DESCRIPTION:Siegfried Charoux\, The Islanders\, Festival of Britain\, 1951\nOnline Talk\nOn Wednesday 5 May at 6pm\, to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Festival of Britain\, design historian Harriet Atkinson\, author of The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People (2012) and contributor to Insiders/Outsiders; Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture (2019)\, will give a talk about the disproportionately and perhaps surprisingly large contribution made by former refugees from Nazi Europe to that landmark cultural event of 1951. \nTo book click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-festival-of-britain-a-land-and-its-people/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210406T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20210326T145939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T114710Z
UID:10000924-1617739200-1617742800@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Berthold Wolpe: A Man of Letters
DESCRIPTION:Radio programme\, Resonance FM\nThe German typographer and designer Berthold Wolpe worked at Faber & Faber for over three decades\, where he is estimated to have designed over 1\,500 book covers and defined the style of the Faber book jacket\, including the use of his famous ‘Albertus’ typeface. Wolpe was Jewish and had fled Nazi Germany before the Second World War\, and it was Albertus\, commissioned by Stanley Morison for the Monotype Corporation\, that saved his life. It became one of the most popular typefaces of the 20th century and is still used on all the City of London street signs. During his long career\, he left a distinctive mark on graphic design and a deep impression on those who knew him. To celebrate the life and work of Berthold Wolpe\, Patrick Bernard is joined by three of his children\, Sarah\, Paul\, and the artist Deborah Hopson-Wolpe; and Phil Cleaver\, author of ‘Berthold Wolpe: The Total Man’\, and curator of an exhibition of his work at the Lettering Arts Centre in 2018. \n  \nA recording of the programme is available on Mixcloud here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/berthold-wolpe-a-man-of-letters/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Lectures,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201026T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201026T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20201014T155638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201016T140502Z
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SUMMARY:Animated Visions: émigré film-makers in 1940s Britain
DESCRIPTION:Still from River of Steel\, directed by Peter Sachs\nThis session focuses on the distinctive work of German-born film animator and art director Peter Sachs (1912–1990) and the animation shorts of Cologne-born Peter Strausfeld (1910–1980)\, the latter directed and produced by the Austrian-born film-maker and manager of the pioneering Academy Cinema George Michael Hoellering (1897–1980).  \nRefugees from Nazi Europe\, they first met as internees on the Isle of Man. After their release\, each survived chiefly through animation shorts commissioned through the Ministry of Information who recognized the potential of animation for engaging UK audiences during the war years and after. We will explore their work and long-lasting contribution to animation and the wider world of British cinema.  \nProfessor Fran Lloyd (Kingston School of Art) will be in conversation with Jez Stewart\, Curator (Animation) at the BFI National Archive\, British Film Institute.  \nTo book\, click here. \nThis event is organized by Insiders/Outsiders. \n  \n\nThis event will be held on Zoom. Upon registering\, you will be sent a link to the Event in your confirmation email\, and reminders will be sent closer to the time. \nHow do I join a Zoom event? You can join an event simply by clicking the meeting link or going to join.zoom.us and entering the meeting ID. Although you will be prompted to download the software once you have clicked on the link\, you do not need a Zoom account to attend an event.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/animated-visions-emigre-film-makers-in-1940s-britain/
LOCATION:Insiders Outsiders\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Film,Lectures,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200517
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20181119T210026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200318T090213Z
UID:10000583-1589587200-1589673599@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Modernist Hampstead Walk
DESCRIPTION:Meeting: Hampstead Tube Station\nDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s such as The Sun House by Maxwell Fry\, and 66 Frognal by Connell Ward and Lucas. Much of the architecture echoed design trends in Europe and the walk includes passing housing by the émigré architects Ernst Freud and Erno Goldfinger. Elements of eighteenth-century architectural design were also an influence for some architects. \nPassing some more recent examples and of course striking non modernist Hampstead buildings\, this walk will finish at the iconic and idealistic Isokon flats in Belsize Park. Here you can discover how the émigré designers accommodated here in 1930s\, were so important for Isokon. \nLed by Marilyn Greene\, Hampstead local historian\, curator and guide \n\n11.00am-1.00pm
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/modernist-hampstead-walk-6/
LOCATION:Hampstead Tube Station\, Hampstead High Street\, London\, London\, NW3 1QG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Design,Walks,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200321T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200321T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20200207T181316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200320T122613Z
UID:10000789-1584799200-1584806400@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:*Postponed* Refuge Britain: Stories of Émigré Designers
DESCRIPTION:Auditorium\, Level 1\, National Museum of Scotland\, Edinburgh\n\n\n*POSTPONED DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS SITUATION*\n  \nTextile designers Bernat Klein and Tibor Reich had two things in common: they both arrived in the UK as refugees from Nazi Europe and both revolutionised British design. \nJoin curator Lisa Mason\, Dr Anna Nyburg\, Imperial College London\, and Sam Reich\, grandson of Tibor Reich\, for a discussion on the unique contribution of these designers and their influence\, along with an exclusive screening of the film Refuge Britain. \n  \n\n\nIn partnership with the Bernat Klein Foundation and part of Insiders/Outsiders Festival \nEntry via Chambers Street
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/stories-of-emigre-designers/
LOCATION:Chambers Street\, Chambers Street\, Edinburgh\, EH1 1JF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Lectures,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200314T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200314T110000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20190227T194852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T134635Z
UID:10000639-1584183600-1584183600@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Hampstead's Pioneers of Modern Art
DESCRIPTION:Blue plaque to Lee Miller and Roland Penrose\, 21 Downshire Hill. Photo: Marilyn Greene\nMeet at Hampstead Tube Station\nIn the first half of the 20th Century Hampstead was home to some of the era’s most pioneering artists. We will walk in the footsteps of the Slade School artists such as Mark Gertler\, Stanley Spencer and R.W. Nevinson who socialised in Downshire Hill with the artistic Carline family. \nWe will hear of their loves\, hates and reactions to the First World War. A small diversion will take us to the Vale of Health where the former Vale of Health Hotel was situated and we will see the site of the old Hampstead fairground painted by both Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler. In Downshire Hill we will also discuss the role that Roland Penrose\, Margaret Gardiner and Fred and Diana Uhlman played in the art world in the years leading up to\, and during\, the Second World War. We walk to Belsize Park to learn of the Modernists including Henry Moore\, Piet Mondrian and Barbara Hepworth whom Herbert Read described as living as a “nest of gentle artists” and conclude with the refugee designers who stayed at the Isokon flats before moving to pastures new. \nThe walk is led by guide and art historian\, Marilyn Greene \n  \n\nThe walk duration: two and a half hours.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/hampsteads-pioneers-of-modern-art-walk/
LOCATION:Hampstead Tube Station\, Hampstead High Street\, London\, London\, NW3 1QG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Design,Fine Art,Walks,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200302
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20181119T210026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200102T212509Z
UID:10000582-1583020800-1583107199@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Modernist Hampstead Walk
DESCRIPTION:Meeting: Hampstead Tube Station\nDiscover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s such as The Sun House by Maxwell Fry\, and 66 Frognal by Connell Ward and Lucas. Much of the architecture echoed design trends in Europe and the walk includes passing housing by the émigré architects Ernst Freud and Erno Goldfinger. Elements of eighteenth-century architectural design were also an influence for some architects. \nPassing some more recent examples and of course striking non modernist Hampstead buildings\, this walk will finish at the iconic and idealistic Isokon flats in Belsize Park. Here you can discover how the émigré designers accommodated here in 1930s\, were so important for Isokon. \nLed by Marilyn Greene\, Hampstead local historian\, curator and guide \n\n11.00am-1.00pm
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/modernist-hampstead-walk-5/
LOCATION:Hampstead Tube Station\, Hampstead High Street\, London\, London\, NW3 1QG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Design,Walks,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200229
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201106
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20200218T161740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T163838Z
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SUMMARY:Jacques & Jacqueline Groag: Architect & Designer
DESCRIPTION:Isokon Gallery\, London\n  \nJacques Groag\, architect and furniture designer\, and Jacqueline Groag\, textile and pattern designer\, were two celebrated residents of the Isokon in the 1940s and early 1950s\, yet due to split residence between three countries\, which often did not communicate with each other in the 20th century\, the tremendous scope of work of these second-wave Viennese Modernists has only recently become known. \nThis exhibition covers their individual careers in Vienna and Czechoslovakia\, their lives as Jewish émigrés to London\, their collaborations\, and the couple’s unique contributions in Britain to postwar exhibitions\, monuments\, furniture and textile design. The Isokon exhibition describes the Groags’ remarkable range of contacts that included Josef Hoffman\, Ludwig Wittgenstein\, Adolf Loos and Trude Fleischmann\, while the display is copiously illustrated with many of their pre- and post-war works including commissions ranging from the Austrian Werkbundsiedlung\, to the Festival of Britain\, Gordon Russell\, Swan & Edgar\, Heal’s\, Colibri and Schiaparelli. Jacqueline\, some of whose original textiles are on show\, even created the fabric for a dress worn by the future Elizabeth II. \nThe book Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement by Ursula Prokop will be on sale at the Gallery throughout the season.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/jacques-jacqueline-groag-architecture-design/
LOCATION:The Isokon Gallery\, Lawn Road\, London\, NW3 2XD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Archival displays,Artforms,Design,Exhibitions,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200511
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20191220T122645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T122645Z
UID:10000771-1580428800-1589155199@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:George Him: A Polish Designer for Mid-Century Britain
DESCRIPTION:House of Illustration\, King’s Cross\, London\nSpanning George Him’s long and versatile career as both an independent designer and as one half of the prolific Lewitt-Him partnership (1933-1954)\, the exhibition will include iconic wartime propaganda posters for the Ministries of Food and Information\, corporate branding for El Al airlines and adverts for clients like Schweppes\, Technicolor\, the Post Office and The Times. \nHim’s distinctive blend of hard modernist lines and empathetic humour marked his varied output\, from reportage and book illustration to his era-defining branding and advertising. The exhibition will display previously unseen working sketches\, original artwork and ephemera alongside Him’s most celebrated work\, revealing one of the most important graphic artists of the 20th century.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/george-him-a-polish-designer-for-mid-century-britain/
LOCATION:The House of Illustration\, 2 Granary Square\, Kings Cross\, London\, London\, N1C 4BH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Exhibitions,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191201
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20191029T174109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191029T174109Z
UID:10000752-1575072000-1575158399@insidersoutsidersfestival.org
SUMMARY:Bye Bye Bauhaus
DESCRIPTION:Paul and Marjorie Abbatt Play Tray\, designed by Freda Skinner\, c. 1935\nUniversity of Westminster School of Architecture\, London\nA Twentieth Century Society Symposium \nAs the Bauhaus Centenary year comes to its close\, what is left to say? The Bye Bye Bauhaus day symposium\, offers new perspectives and stories that have not yet been told\, concerning design in Germany and Britain during the past century. \nThe programme opens with Richard Hollis on the Belgian Art Nouveau designer Henry van de Velde\, the subject of his new book and Professor Gerald Adler\, the English expert on Heinrich Tessenow. The morning concludes with three speakers on subjects relating to design\, with Tanya Harrod on the Bauhaus enthusiasms of the English handweaver\, Ethel Mairet\, Sophie Jump\, theatre designer and scenographer\, on the little-known collaboration between Marcel Breuer and the costume design group\, Motley\, in 1930s London\, followed by Dr Anna Nyburg\, on ‘Exiles and Textiles’\, the little-known story of official British support for manufacturers fleeing Nazi Germany. \nThe afternoon programme includes Valeria Carullo\, Curator\, The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection\, RIBA British Architectural Library\, speaking on the RIBA Refugee Committee. She is followed by Dr David Haney\, author of When Modern was Green\, 2010\, who considers the afterlife of the Trade Union School at Bernau by the second Bauhaus director\, Hannes Meyer\, and Professor Frederic Schwartz of UCL who asks ‘What was the Bauhaus?’ – a question that becomes more difficult to answer the more we hear about it. \nThe final session introduces five lesser-known Bauhäusler in Britain: Jilly Allenby on her grandfather\, the sculptor Johannes Ilmari Auerbach; Marcus Williamson on René Halkett\, painter\, designer broadcaster and lyricist for the punk band Bauhaus; John Allan on the graphic designer George Adams (Teltscher)\, Rachel Dickson on puppeteer Werner ‘Jacky’ Jackson and Danyel Gilgan on his grandfather\, the maker and teacher Wilfred Franks. \n  \n\nTwentieth Century Society Members: £40; Non-members: £50; Students with valid ID: £25 \nTickets include refreshments with sandwich lunch and post-conference drinks. \nBooking \n9.30am – 7.00pm
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/bye-bye-bauhaus/
LOCATION:University of Westminster School of Architecture\, 35 Marylebone Road\, London\, NW1 5LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Design,Educational events,Symposia,What's On
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191121T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191121T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T192335
CREATED:20190227T191654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190910T094543Z
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SUMMARY:Jacques & Jacqueline Groag
DESCRIPTION:Isokon Gallery\, Lawn Road\, London\n\n\nJacques Groag (1892–1962) was a prominent architect and interior designer\, originally from Moravia\, now in the Czech Republic\, but later living in Vienna. His wife was the textile designer Jacqueline Groag (1903-1986)\, born Hilde Pick in Prague\, who had trained under Josef Hoffmann. They moved into Lawn Road Flats in 1939 after first fleeing the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 and then the annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. \nIn Britain\, Jacques worked on the Utility Furniture program under Sir Gordon Russell\, was the main exhibition designer for the 1946 Britain Can Make It exhibition at the V&A\, and worked with his wife on the 1951 Festival Of Britain\, but he never designed another building again after arriving in Britain. His wife on the other hand was the most successful British textile designer of the postwar era\, only equalled by Lucienne Day. Jacqueline was made an RDI (Royal Designer for Industry) in 1984\, two years before her death. \nUrsula Prokop is a doctor of history and art at the University of Vienna\, and the author of the recently published book Jacques and Jacqueline Groag\, Architect and Designer: Two Hidden Figures of the Viennese Modern Movement. She will be joined in conversation with Tel Aviv architect Shmuel Groag\, Jacques and Jacqueline’s great-nephew. \n\n\n  \n\n18.30–20.30
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/acques-jacqueline-groag-with-ursula-prokop/
LOCATION:The Isokon Gallery\, Lawn Road\, London\, NW3 2XD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Design,Lectures,What's On
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