Collecting contemporary decorative arts: this year's annual BADA loan exhibition at the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair showcases the works of some of the country's leading contemporary decorative artists. As Amicia de Moubray explains, the flourishing state of crafts today is reflected in a well-deserved increase in attention from museums and collectors.

From: Apollo | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: de Moubray, Amicia | Copyright information

It is an exciting time to be a curator of decorative arts in the museum world. Not only is there 'a burgeoning of creative talent in Britain', in the words of Julia Poole, keeper of applied art at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, but the ways of obtaining funding for acquisitions through many different sources have become much greater as well as more sophisticated in the past few years. The result is that numerous museums all over the country are making exciting new acquisitions....

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