ARTS & CRAFTS HOME by Wendy Hitchmough
Interest in Arts and Crafts architecture, furniture and crafts has increased enormously in recent years. William Morris was the leading exponent of the movement, and his belief that anything of authentic value had to be made by people rather than machines was shared by many architects and designers of the time. The Arts and Crafts Home shows how the aesthetic values that lay behind the Arts and Crafts movement can be incorporated into contemporary life. Using over a hundred colour photographs and archive illustrations, The Arts and Crafts Home shows the wide range of styles adopted by the architects and designers of the period. Wendy Hitchmough adopts a room-by-room approach, focusing on the furniture, textiles and accessories that were the integral elements of a complete home. From the details of the door furniture in the drawing room to the proportions of the range in the kitchen, the respective rooms of the house are reviewed in the context for which they were intended. This sumptuously designed book uses specially commissioned photographs of houses in England and the US as well as offering a listing of Arts and Crafts homes to visit.
Wendy Hitchmough has worked as a freelance architectural historian since 1986 and has lectured at RIBA, to the London Society and to the Patrons of New Art at the Tate Gallery. She lectures in Europe and the US and has written articles and reviews for a number of architectural publications, as well as three books including C.F.A. Voysey and Arts and Crafts Gardens (Pavilion/Rizzoli/DVA). She lives in Lewes.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781862055711 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862055718 |
| Title | ARTS & CRAFTS HOME |
| Author | Martin Charles |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2002-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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