Gilded Glass Vase by Thomas Webb & Sons, c. 1890. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 1990.286.3. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art

On November 20, BFA Product Design and MFA Industrial Design Program Director Rama Chorpash will join Ellenor M. Alcorn, Associate Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, for a conversation on the creative, economic, and ethical choices embedded within the materials that make up a handful of British decorative art objects in the Met’s collection. For information on this program can be found here.