Visit to Paris
September 30th to 2nd October

This three-day visit to Paris has been inspired by the Chateau de Chantilly’s exceptional exhibition, Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, which is exhibiting the famous monthly calendar pages unbound for the first time, following the restoration of this celebrated Book of Hours.

Closes 16th November
Victoria & Albert Museum

This stunning exhibition will explore how Louis, Pierre and Jacques Cartier, grandsons of the founder, Louis-Francois, created with their exceptional craftsmanship a design style inspired by different cultures across the world from the early twentieth century onwards. This together with an international expansion of clients helped by their new venues in London and New York made the Parisian Cartier name world famous. The exhibition will include precious jewels, historic gemstones, iconic watches and clocks as well as previously unseen drawings from the V&A and Cartier archives.

Image: Brooch manufactured by Cartier, London ,1941.

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9 October 2025 - 11 January 2026
National Portrait Gallery

A celebrated portrait and war photographer as well as a painter and interior designer, this exciting exhibition will concentrate on Cecil Beaton’s ground-breaking fashion work, both as a costume designer and photographer. He produced era-defining photographs capturing the beauty, glamour and star power in the early post-war eras. This was a pivotal aspect of his career and his work moves from the Jazz Age and the Bright Young Things, to the high fashion brilliance of the fifties and the huge success of My Fair Lady.

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8 March ‒ 22 June 2025
National Gallery

This remarkable exhibition, which charts the development of painting in Siena in the fourteenth  century, has been chosen to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the National Gallery.  It focuses on the works of the four greatest artists of the period, Simone Martini, Duccio di Buoninsegna and the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, whose work was daringly innovative and emotionally powerful.  Exceptional loans will reunite panels from Duccio’s famous Maesta and Simone Martini’s Orsini Polyptych for the first time in many centuries. Complementing these paintings will be works in a variety of media – metalwork, enamels, wood, marble and manuscript illumination – highlighting the extraordinary creativity in Siena at that time.

Image: The Angel Gabriel, about 1326-34, Simone Martini

© Collection KMSKA - Flemish Community

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22nd March - 8th September
Fashion and Textile Museum

Barbara Hulanicki’s legendary Biba store created a vision of colourful opulence and style that transformed the fashion scene in the 1960s and 70s. It began life as a small mail-order company in 1963 and developed into the famous emporium with its diverse and exotic departments housed in Derry & Toms , the splendid art deco building on Kensington High Street. The exhibition will celebrate the Biba look with archival items of clothing and materials, photographs and film.

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1st March - 30th June
Royal Academy of Arts

This exhibition celebrates the life and work of Angelica Kauffman (1741 - 1807), whose fine portraits and pioneering history paintings made her one of most famous female artists of the later eighteenth century. It explores her rise to fame in London, her role as one of the founding members of the Royal Academy and her later career in Rome where her studio became a hub for the city’s cultural life.

Image: Angelica Kauffman, Self-portrait at the Crossroads between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1794. National Trust Collections © National Trust Images/John Hammond

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