[3] From 2011 to 2023 the MoDA Collections Centre was based at Beaufort Park in Colindale, close to Middlesex University's Hendon campus in the London Borough of Barnet.

Silver Studio designs were bought by all the leading British textile manufacturers, including Stead McAlpin, Alexander Morton, and AH Lee, to name just a few.

Clients included well known producers of high quality fabrics, such as Turnbull & Stockdale and the famous department store, Liberty.

After it closed in the early 1960s, the contents of the Silver Studio were given to the Hornsey College of Art, which subsequently became part of what is now Middlesex University.

Hasler played a significant role in many high-profile exhibitions, displays, poster campaigns and book publishing in Britain from the mid-1930s to the mid-1980s.

His collection reflects his keen interest in all kinds of printed material and includes postcards, playbills, sheet music, packaging and posters dating from the nineteenth century onwards.

The Charles Hasler Collection will make a great contribution to Reading’s existing holdings, that include the Archive of British Publishing and Printing.

The majority of the wallpapers held here were intended for the mass market, not for ‘high-end’ consumers, and could therefore be seen as a barometer of British taste over a long period.

The majority of items from the Crown Wallpaper collection were divided between the Whitworth Art Gallery and Sanderson Design Group when the museum closed.