From function to fantasy – the brooch

In October Wartski will be hosting an exhibition in aid of the King’s Trust entitled : From Function to Fantasy The Brooch. We are thrilled that our Suffragette Holloway brooch will be part of that exhibition. The exhibition is a must see if you are in London in October.

1st to 12th October 2025, 10:30am to 5pm.
At Wartski, 60 St. James’s Street, London SW1A 1LE.

The exhibition will span the Bronze Age to the Contemporary, and include loans from museums including the V&A, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Musée Lalique and the Schmuckmuseum, as well as the National Trust, English Heritage and the Goldsmiths’ Company.  The majority of the works will be drawn from private collections.   Brooches of wide ranging-inspirations and themes will be featured, as will Royal, French Imperial and Russian Imperial examples.  From Sarah Bernhardt to Suffragettes, Sir Edward Burne-Jones to Salvador Dali, famous wearers and designers will be represented as well as the most distinguished jewellers of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Entry Free.
Catalogues £10.

In aid of The King’s Trust.

Our Suffragette brooch in the Wartski exhibition