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Total number of records: 397

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items365
Archives32

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection94
Herbert Read Collection77
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History52
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive19
Leeds Russian Archive11
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection11
Art and Antique Market4
LGBTQ4
English Literature2
Leeds Poetry2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
furniture design164
furniture138
design80
decoration and ornament55
design, industrial43
interior decoration38
decorative arts32
industrial design29
architecture23
chair design20

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England36
France22
Great Britain19
Germany18
London, United Kingdom12
Leeds, United Kingdom4
Austria3
Bedford, United Kingdom1
Belgium1
Englander1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)236
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)18
Guilmard, DéSiré (1810-1889)15
Sheraton, Thomas (1751-1806)10
Amsterdam (Netherlands)9
Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum9
Furstenberg Princely Court Household [Library], Donaueschingen, Germany8
Godel, Vilhelm (1864-1941)8
Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779)6
Gloag, John (1896-1981)6

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From 15001
From 16002
From 170044
From 1800129
From 1900221

Count of Latest date

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Up to 15991
Up to 16991
Up to 179935
Up to 1899128
Up to 1999232

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Nineteenth-century design : from Pugin to Mackintosh

Gere, Charlotte; Whiteway, Michael; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1993

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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High Victorian design

Jervis, Simon; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1983

Includes bibliographical references (page 6) and index.

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The decorative designs of C.F.A. Voysey : from the drawings collection, the British Architectural Library, the Royal Institute of British Architects

Durant, Stuart; Voysey, C F A (1857-1941); British Architectural Library

1991

Includes bibliographical references: pp. 30-32.

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Mies van der Rohe, furniture and interiors

Blaser, Werner (1924-2019); Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig (1886-1969); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1982

Translation of: Il design di Mies van der Rohe. Includes bibliographical references (page 142) and index.

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Design: an exhibition of glass, pottery, silver, textiles, typography

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); British Institute of Adult Education

[194-?]

Catalogue for the exhibition, organised by the British Institute of Adult Education as part of the "Art for the people" series.

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Design history, fad or function?

Design Council

1978

Includes bibliographical references. The historian, the critic and the designer / James Holland -- From a lipstick to a steamship / Penny Sparke -- Steamlined expresses of the LNER 1935-39 / Alan Sel...

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Design '46 : survey of British industrial design as displayed at the "Britain can make it" exhibition

Drew, Jane B; Russell, Gordon (1892-1980); De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969); Council of Industrial Design (Great Britain)

[1946]

Includes essays by Jane B. Drew and Gordon Russell.

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The Value of good design : a report on the Scottish Design Congress, Edinburgh, 1954

Maynard, Alister; Council of Industrial Design. Scottish Committee

[1954]

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The practical idealists : twenty-five years of designing for industry

Blake, John; Blake, Avril

1969

Bibliographical footnotes.

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Selected examples of Italian industrial design

Zanuso, Marco; Dorfles, Gillo (1910-); Italian Institute (London, England)

[1955]

Exhibition catalogue.

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Zweedse vormgeving

Hald, Arthur; Skawonius, Sven-Erik; Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum

[1959]

Catalogue of an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, October, 1959.

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Designs for the Borough of Bedford

c.1942

Black and while photograph mounted on card of ornamental and typographic designs for the Borough of Bedford, for certificates for Honorary Freedom of the Borough, services to the Borough and Honorary ...

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