The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture
The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) @MiddlesexUni is home to a world-renowned collection of designs, wallpapers, textiles, books & magazines.
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Alice Maude-Roxby: Resist: be modern (again)
We are delighted to be lending items from MoDA’s collections to the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton for an exhibition curated by our colleague, Alice Maude-Roxby, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at…
Co-Creation
We are committed to exploring our collections with our audiences, co-creating knowledge and inspiring creativity. We support and challenge audiences to learn with and from the collections, to…
Project: Floral Photographs of Japan
MoDA is currently seeking funding to conserve three historic albums of collotypes by pioneering Japanese photographer Kazumasa Ogawa. These three albums – Lilies of Japan (1893), Chrysanthemums of…
Loan: ‘Resist: be modern (again),’ John Hansard Gallery (2019)
Some of the items we lent to the Enid Marx exhibition at the House of Illustration last year are on the road again, this time to the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton. They will be featured as part…
James Millar: Finding Inspiration in the Silver Studio Collection
Textile designer James Francis Millar teaches part time at Middlesex University and also works freelance. Before he joined Middlesex, James worked for well known brand Liberty. James was was recently…
Design for a printed furnishing - Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture…
Design for a printed furnishing by Lewis Jones for the Silver Studio, 1932.
Peggy Angus
Peggy Angus (1904-1993) had a varied and esoteric professional career, matched by restless wanderlust in her personal life. [Video]
Medieval Musicians - Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA)
Portion of 'Medieval Musicians'wallpaper, lino-cut print on paper, designed by Peggy Angus, c.1970.
Stylised flowers and leaves arranged in vertical lines, in blues and greens…
Design by the Silver Studio of stylised flowers and leaves arranged in vertical lines, 1906.
Caroline Collinge: ‘Waves’ dance performance film
Designer-maker Caroline Collinge was one of the participants in our Katagami in Practice project. Inspired by Japanese paper stencils used within traditional textile printing of kimonos, Caroline’s…
Funded Project: Katagami in Practice (2016-18)
A project to focus on katagami as a source of inspiration for artists and designers, both historically and today
Naima Bakar: MA Printmaking Graduate
Naima Bakar is a recent graduate from Middlesex University’s MA Printmaking course. She visited MoDA during her studies and found a wealth of inspiration for her printed textiles and wallpapers. She…
Clusters of pale yellow flowers and blue leaves, within cloud-like shapes joined…
Printed textile design of clusters of pale yellow or orange flowers and blue or black leaves, within cloud-like shapes joined by black stems and leaves, in bright green, mid-blue and purple, on a deep…
Stabat Mater - Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA)
Creator Antonin Dvorak Date 1950s Code CH/5/6/5/90 Extent Single sheet of paper Level Item Repository MoDA Scope Colour music sheet cover titled 'Stabat Mater'. Music composed by Antonin Dvorak in…
‘Catesbys colourful cork lino’ Catalogue of Catesby’s cork lino
Catalogue of Catesby's cork lino, 1938.
Houses through time: some homes can reflect a century of social change
Some houses are like a time capsule of social history that can tell us how living standards, and fashions, have changed over the years.
Lara Mantell at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
Lara Mantell, part of textile collective 'Ceres', talks about finding colour inspiration for her work as one of MoDA's Artists in Residence, 2019
Jamie Burnett: Grabbed by a biscuit tin
Sat in front on me was a rectangle object, weathered and grey with a rough texture. Its faded marks gave it a nostalgic charm, the kind of nostalgia associated with childhood delights. Its san serif…
Sample of yellow curtain fabric. - Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture…
Curtain fabric sample in bright yellow with horizontal stripes in black filled with black, red and white vertical stripes
Student style and a wallpaper sandwich
MoDA’s Curator, Serena Dyer, found herself fascinated by the wallpaper sandwich… In November 2003, wallpaper fragments from Peterhouse Cambridge were given to the museum. They were discovered during…