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A considerable number of pieces of furniture were made to his design.  The Victoria and Albert Museum also has in its collections textiles and ceramics by Brangwyn all of which display his wide knowledge of historiacal sources.","physicalDescription":"Pair of electroplate handles for a piece of furniture.  The escutcheons are of pierced and embossed sheet metal.  The handles are on a circular ring passing through a moulded collar which is fixed by a thread through the escutheon to the carcase.  The design of the plate consists of a raised section occupying the greater part of the frame in the shape of an apple with the support for the ring handle passing through the centre.  The surface is further embellished with a line of embossed teardrops along the lower section, and single teardrops embossed at random above.  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He exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1885 when he was barely 18 years old.\r\n\r\nAfter leaving Morris & Co. he travelled extensively, gathering material for his painting and graphic work in the East, in Africa and in Spain, still working for Morris in between trips.  In 1895 he assisted with the decorating of Seigfried Bing's gallery in preparation for the transformation into the Maison de l'Art Nouveau, and also designed stained glass for Bing and for Tiffany in New York.  He designed his first complete interior in 1900, for a house in South Kensington.  Brangwyn was also offered the task of decoratong and furnishing the Biennale Exhibition held in Venice in 1905, and again in 1907.  The furniture and panelling fopr the 1905 scheme was made to his design by the firm of J.S. Henry who, like Wylie and Lockhead in Glasgow, made a speciality of furniture in the Art Nouveau style.  Brangwyn's designs, in contrast, were of the starkest simplicity.  He exhibited a range of \"cheap\" furniture with the decorastive panels which he executed for the exhibition at Ghent in 1913, again designed on the most simple lines.  \r\n\r\nDuring the whole of his mature years he worked on major decorative commissions including those for the Rockerfeller Centre in New York which he executed in collaboration with Jose Maria Sert and Diego Rivera.  In 1919 he was elected a Royal Academician.  He continued to design furniture, pottery, metalwork and jewellery, rugs, embroideries and fans, and to make elaborate and large scale etchings. He was knighted in 1941.\r\n\r\nIsabelle Anscombe and Charlotte Gere, <font -u>Arts and Crafts in Britain and America</font>, London, Academy Editions, 1978 pp.208-9","briefDescription":"Pair of electroplate handles from a piece of furniture, designed by Frank Brangwyn RA, England, 1900","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Isabelle Anscombe and Charlotte Gere, <font -u>Arts and Crafts in Britain and America</font>, London, Academy Editions, 1978.  pp.53 ill. 57-8, 60, 208-9, 217 ISBN. 0856704261"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Dominique Marechel, ed. <font -u>Frank Brangwyn Retrospective</font>, Brugge, Stedelijke Musea, 1987. p.109 ill."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"P.G. Konody, <font -u>The Decorative Designs of Mr. Frank Brangwyn.  His Carpet and Metal Fittings</font>, in The Magazine of Art, vol 1, 1902-3, pp.391-95."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"H. 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