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Secrets of the Museum
Visual Feast
Micromosaics
Gilbert Collection
Eye and Hand
East Wing X

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Filthy Lucre was also on at the V&A when I visited in the before times. It’s an installation by @darrenwaterstonart that reimagines the famous Peacock Room by Whistler, exploring the tumultuous circumstances of its creation. There is excell

‘Ends are always followed by beginnings, something new could start, now, right here! There really are so many Wonderful Things!’ Words to live by 🙏💕✨

Why not be oneself? Edith Sitwell vibes feel very appropriate for right now as does the whole of Wonderful Things. Shame the only country house I’m being myself in right now is my very elaborate mind palace (see Sophia Loren’s 1960s Itali

My fav room was of course the one I had a hand in. Like many other curators at the museum I gave Tim Walker a tour of the galleries and stores collection I was responsible for. As a MASSIVE fan I was intent on showing Tim all my favs in the Gilbert g

Inspired by an Embroidered Casket in the V&A, ‘Box of Delights’ told the ‘age-old story of someone being stuck in a place and yearning for something bigger or better than their small town.’ James Spencer, a fashion illustr

The build of Wonderful Things was frankly sublime. After the Chapel of Nudes, visitors left the retrospective part of the show, and entered a space dedicated to work Walker made for the show, inspired by the V&A collections. The build was a WOW-

One of my favourite rooms in Wonderful Things was the Chapel of Nudes. First of all I loved the otherworldly design of the room. It reminded me of Barton Fink with its disused hotel vibes, with 2001 lighting. Loved it. But most of all I loved the por

The first room in Wonderful Things is a kind of retrospective of Tim Walker’s career looking at his back catalogue of fantastical imagery and his relationship with photography. Everything in these photographs is ‘real’, Walker works

Ok so now for something completely different and so appropriate for these times! I have been obsessed with photographer Tim Walker’s work for years so when I heard the V&A were planning a retrospective curated by the amazing @suzy_brown_lon

LONG CAPTION ALERT but hey i know you have the time🤷&zwj;♀️ So there was a painting included in British Baroque that showed black children wearing the same metal collars as the hunting dogs they were depicted alongside. This is not that image. I don

My fav room in British Baroque was ‘Illusion and Deception’ which focuses on trompe l’&oelig;il which is obvz just great. I was thrilled to see the door from Chatsworth that I remember losing my mind over as a child. It was so good

I am absolutely obsessed with this portrait of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough playing cards with Lady Fitzharding. I am obsessed with Sarah and gasped when I saw it on the wall at Tate. She is one of those figures of history that gets more compelling

Well what a time to be alive. I’m asthmatic so it’s the next three months inside for me, the husband and our flat mates. I hadn’t been posting because I was too busy watching the news and planning food deliveries but it feels like t

This portait bust of Charles by Honoré Pelle seems to be the show’s most grammable object. I’ve seen it in my feed so many times. Well here it is again. I like it. I particularly love his double chin and his high relief curls. Nice

Ok kids it’s art content o’clock! In early feb über babe @danielle_j_thom took me as her date to the PV for British Baroque: Power and Illusion at Tate Britain. The PV was heaving with the grandees of the museum world so pretty much

Before the art content resumes here is a pic of me in the gorgeous courtyard of the house we stayed in for @eccosaise ‘s hen do💕💕💕 I’m wearing my @phaedraclothing outfit that I LOVE. Its practically impossible to get sustainable ethica

So in early feb I was on tv 📺 which was a lol experience. I didn’t see it until it aired on bbc 2 after Celebrity antiques road trip. It is of course a v cringe experience watching yourself on national tv knowing that potentially millions of o

Been on a bit of an unintentional Instagram break the past few weeks as I was on holiday with the fam in fuerteventura where there is a distinct lack of historic houses but also we couldn’t have gone to see them anyway as WE WERE TRAPPED INSIDE

This complicated place is so beautiful and so well presented. For me it raises many questions about appropriation and how we deal with that in heritage spaces today, questions that I don’t have answers to just yet. Thanks for making us go to Br

The drama continues upstairs with bedrooms which are far more restrained and domestic in scale but still v extra. Some quite fabulous colour choices. Orientalist fantasy abounds. Still feels uncomfortable to me, especially in our current political cl