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North Lands Creative Glass: A Portrait at 20

Is glass natural or man-made? Where is the division between human-manipulation and the processes of nature? This collection of glassworks from North Lands Creative Glass, an art centre from Caithness in the northeast of Scotland, questions the limits to which glass can be stretched while exploring the nature of the material itself; how it plays […]

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Nordic Modernist Design

In the aftermath of the Second World War came the Nordic Modernist Movement, a movement which strived for affordable, practical and beautiful homeware and jewellery which can still be seen to affect our own contemporary designs. The current Nordic Design exhibition in The National Museum of Scotland shows a small but exemplary collection of just […]