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He manufactured furniture in the Cotswold Hills, a region of Arts and Crafts furniture-making since Ashbee, and he was a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. William Morris's biographer, Fiona MacCarthy , detected the Arts and Crafts philosophy even behind the Festival of Britain (1951), the work of the designer Terence Conran ...
Geoffrey Henry Lupton (2 September 1882 – 30 December 1949) was a British architect and furniture designer who is best known for his contribution to the Arts and Crafts movement, working with Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley.
William Edward Barnsley CBE (7 February 1900 – 2 December 1987) [1] [2] was an English designer and maker of furniture, teacher and important figure in the 20th-century British craft movement. Born in Duntisbourne Rouse , Gloucestershire , [ 3 ] he was the son of Sidney Barnsley [ 4 ] who trained as an architect with Norman Shaw , and the ...
An exhibition, entitled The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, [3] was organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Chipstone Foundation and American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. From 2009 to 2011, the exhibition was presented at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art , Huntington Art Collections and Metropolitan ...
Sir Mervyn E. Macartney FSA FRIBA (16 September 1853 – 28 October 1932) was a British architect and Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral between 1906 and 1931. [1] [2] Macartney was a leading figure in the Arts and Craft movement, being a founder of the Art Workers' Guild and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, and an influential voice as the editor of The Architectural Review ...
Joseph Walsh (born 1979) [1] is a self-taught Irish furniture maker and designer.He was born in County Cork, where he established his studio and workshop in 1999.From the outset, he pursued innovation in making through traditional techniques, often from other craft forms, which enabled new making methods and forms.
Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters.
The Arts and Crafts movement was a reformist movement, at first inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, that was at its height between approximately 1880–1910. The movement influenced British decorative arts , architecture , cabinet making , crafts , and "cottage" garden design .