Skeuomorphs, Design and Modern Craft

Arts & Ideas

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Laurence Scott, Will Self and New Generation Thinkers Lisa Mullen and Danielle Thom look at redundant features in design plus a visit to Collect: International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design, presented at the Crafts Council, at the Saatchi Gallery in London. And, we discuss the 19th century French novelist Karl-Joris Huysmans as art critic, with Huysmans scholar and translator Brendan King.

Collect, The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects is on at the Saatchi Gallery in London from 28 February - 3 March 2019 Danielle Thom is a curator at the Museum of London. Lisa Mullen is the author of Mid-century Gothic: The uncanny objects of modernity in British literature and culture after the Second World War

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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