His Majesty The King visited the Royal Collection Trust Decorative Arts conservation workshop. As well as trying his hand at gilding one of the dragons which will return to the East Wing of Buckingham Palace, His Majesty saw a variety of objects that will be on display in our upcoming The Edwardians: Age of Elegance exhibition and others that will go back into the royal residences. The workshop’s expert staff use a combination of centuries-old techniques and the latest technologies to conserve f

As part of HNOC’s Decorative Arts of the Gulf South (DAGS) program, interns this year have examined 19th-century textiles and the enslaved people whose labor produced and maintained them. In this video, HNOC intern Katie Cynkar studies a 19th-century quilt in HNOC’s collections and compares its design with a quilt the DAGS program recently studied at Shadows-on-the-Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana, highlighting what the objects reveal about daily life and labor on the former plantation. 🧵 Learn m

To celebrate International Sculpture Day learn about the decorative arts and sculpture in our collection. The Getty Museum collections reflect the close relationship of art and design in Europe from the medieval period to the 19th century. Sculptors often shared designs or collaborated with artists working in other media, such as wood, precious metal, bronze, terracotta, marble and stone, and many decorative-arts designers might also have been trained as sculptors. Another unifying motif of thes