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Product Description: Christie's Arts and Crafts Style, with new knowledge and previously unseen photographs, explores one of the most important periods of late nineteenth century design when craftsmanship and beauty were under threat from the mass production of the urban factory...read more

Charles Robert Ashbee—architect, designer, social reformer, and a major force behind the Arts and Crafts Movement—was one of the most significant figures in British artistic and cultural life at the turn of the century. Inspired by the Romantic anti-industrialism of John Ruskin and William Morris, Ashbee started a small craft workshop in the East End of London in 1888 called the Guild of Handicraft. He not only made it a place where work could be satisfying and creative, but in 1902 boldly moved the Guild’s workshops out to the idyllic Cotswold town of Chipping Campden. Utilizing the often vivid journals kept by Ashbee and his wife, Janet, the book documents Ashbee’s life and work, the story of the Guild, and the part Ashbee played in a wide range of reform movements.

Draws on a wealth of original research to present visual tours of the gardens of such arts and crafts designers as Edwin Lutyens, Gertrude Jeckyll, and Charles and Henry Green, in a volume that includes period illustrations and design plans.

Product Description: After training as architects and being inspired by William Morris, Gimson and the Barnsleys gradually became involved with furniture design and the revival of traditional crafts.

Surveys English textiles created during the Arts and Crafts movement of the late nineteenth century and shows examples of printed and woven textiles, tapestries, carpets, embroideries, and lace

Product Description: William Morris - Victorian socialist, designer, poet, artist and craftsman - urged his contemporaries to 'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful', foregrounding his belief in the importance of beautiful practicality in daily domestic life...read more

Presents textile designs