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Designing better mental health wards

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

  • Article

An insider’s view of Play Well

Curator Shamita Sharmacharja offers behind-the-scenes insights into an exhibition about the serious business of play.

  • Article

“Disability is never an individual diagnosis”

As a 35-year-old man, I am sure that my fear of getting old is not uncommon. But for me, that fear goes deeper. I have spina bifida.

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The spectacle maker

Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.

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  • Furniture in human and animal forms. Coloured etching by S. de Wilde, 1807, after "Sylvester Scrutiny".
  • Architecture: various highly wrought designs for door furniture. Engraving.
  • Pompeii: bath house interior showing furniture. Photograph by G. Sommer, ca. 1880.
  • Two actors, one in drag, pose on garden furniture. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • Two actors, one in drag, pose on garden furniture. Photographic postcard, 1918.
  • A gilder's workshop: people gilding frames, clockfaces and furniture with gold leaf. Engraving.
  • The bottle, by George Cruikshank; 'An execution sweeps off the greater part of their furniture'
  • A nurse poses in uniform against ornate furniture in a photographic studio, Liverpool. Photograph, 1870/1890.
  • A nurse poses in uniform against ornate furniture in a photographic studio, Liverpool. Photograph, 1870/1890.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: Chinese exhibits: decorative furniture, ornaments and models. Photograph, 1904.
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