Major accessions to repositories in 2008 relating to Furniture and Interior Design

Local

Essex Record Office

• John William Chipperfield, carpenter and decorator, Widdington: records 1891-1998 (D/F 303)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• S Goodacre Ltd, furniture manufacturers, Nottingham: directors' minutes and misc papers 1899-1967 (7468)

Pembrokeshire Record Office

• Pembrokeshire Crafts Ltd, furniture designers and manufacturers, Newport: records 1978-92 (DB/65)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale

• Thomas Simpson & Sons, cabinet manufacturers, upholsterers and carpet warehousemen, Halifax: stock books 1882-1954 (WYC:1422)

National

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• Koninklijke Nederlandse Meubelfabriek H.P. Mutters en Zoon, furniture manufacturers, The Hague: copy records rel to furnishing of Harland & Wolff ships incl the Olympic and Titanic 1907-13 (T3903)

Victoria & Albert Museum, Archive of Art and Design

• Margaret MacDonald Casson, architect and designer: papers 1897-2004 (AAD/2008/3)

Special

Royal Institute of British Architects

• Finn Juhl, furniture designer: drawings of exhibition c1950-1959 (2008.2)
• William Kent, painter, sculptor and architect: annotated design for ceiling of the Saloon at 44 Berkley Square London c1744 (2008.12)

University

Birmingham University Information Services, Special Collections Department

• Monumental Brass Society: minutes, annual reports and accounts, notebooks, transactions and other publications 1887-2003 (MBS)

Borthwick Institute for Archives

• John Alder Knowles, glass painter and historian of stained glass: notes and papers rel to Price family, glass painters 1938-1952 (KNOWLES)

Oxford University: Griffith Institute

• Walter Segal, architect, furniture designer, archaeological surveyor: notes, drawings, negatives and photographs of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun 1934-35 (Segal MSS)