Max Donnelly will give a gallery talk in the Dr Susan Weber Gallery of Furniture and the Britain Galleries, focusing on objects that have been gifted or bequeathed to the V&A over the last decade. Among these are a striking Gothic Revival armchair designed by the German architect Franz Ewerbeck, from the collection of Jane and Dr Clive Wainwright; a remarkable table veneered with Devonshire marble specimens, given by Professor Gordon and Mary Walkden; and an unusual pair of ebonised and painted armchairs designed by Christopher Dresser, recently gifted by the writer and art historian, Jeremy Cooper.
Max will also explain the complex history of one of the museum’s most recent purchases, a specimen wood box featuring an array of indigenous timbers, made in the workshop of Ralph Turnbull in Kingston, Jamaica.
Meet at 2.00pm by the Reception Desk in the Main (Cromwell Road) Entrance, V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL. The visit will last approx. 90 minutes.
Max Donnelly is Curator of Furniture and Woodwork, 1800-1915, at the V&A
Image: Gothic Revival armchair designed by the German architect Franz Ewerbeck, from the collection of Jane and Dr Clive Wainwright.