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Last week in London we went to the Victoria and Albert Museum to see the Cult of Beauty exhibit (which was very nicely done). The V&A is a museum of decorative arts, and it has wide-ranging displays of Chinese, Islamic, Japanese and Korean art, as well as work by British artists and craftspeople.
We had tea in one of the "refreshment rooms" in the Cafe. One of these was designed by William Morris, and here are a few details from that room:
We also spent a lot of time in the Cast Courts, which are filled with copies of European artworks made from plaster casts. I love the juxtaposition of sculpture from many different times and places:
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