Museum of the Home and Frederick Parker Collection Visit

 

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Museum of the Home

The Museum of the Home opened in 1914 as a museum of furniture and woodwork. It was a resource for the many local people who worked in the East End furniture industry. In the mid-1930s the focus shifted to a younger audience making the museum a centre for learning and education. Over the years the Museum evolved, presenting paintings, furniture and decorated arts in the context of living rooms, with room sets covering London Living Room over the last 400 years. An extra wing was added with 20th century period rooms. The herb garden and the period gardens were opened to the public in the late 1990s. One of the 14 almshouses was restored to show the living conditions of former residents in the 1780s and 1880s. https://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/.

The Frederick Parker Collection

The Frederick Parker Collection is a unique and outstanding collection of almost 200 British chairs, ranging in date from 1660 to the present day. The collection also includes a substantial archive of related historical documents, artefacts and some company information covering the period 1880 to 2001.

Frederick Parker & Sons Ltd was first established in 1871. The firm’s output of high quality, hand-made furniture, was supported by the establishment of a collection of chairs, from earlier periods, from which the firm’s craftsmen could take inspiration and learn the techniques of the past. A growing reputation for excellence during the first half of the twentieth century brought the firm contracts to supply furniture for ocean liners such as Cunard’s RMS Aquitania and the P&O liner, HMS Ophir. In the 1930s following a collaboration with Willi Knoll, a German furniture designer who had invented a tension suspension system for chairs, the family business was renamed and rebranded as Parker Knoll.

Register for the Visit Here:

Visit Date: Wednesday 31st January 2024 at 10:30 a.m – please arrive by 10:15am

Visit Fee: £25.00 per person (lunch and travel costs are in addition)

Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8EA. There is an entrance right opposite Hoxton Overground Station. Meet in the reception of the museum.

Please Note:

Refunds for cancellations will not be made unless 14 days’ notice is given prior to the visit date.

Participants should meet at the museum entrance on Geffrye Street, directly opposite Hoxton Station (London Overground). After lunch we will then travel by train to Aldgate East tube station and then a three-minute walk to the University.

You would be advised to by a Travel Card, or you can tap in and tap out at each station.