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MILLINERY WORKS SPECIAL EXHIBITION as part of THE HAMPSTEAD GARDEN CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS 

‘…His clear heaven and these few lanes of elm, And whispering oak’.

Furnishing the Arts & Crafts Suburb

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If the founding of the Hampstead Garden Suburb was based on creating an egalitarian and decent humane living and leisure environment for its dwellers then it became taken as read that it would be the architects, designers and craftsmen of the Arts & Crafts Movement who would not only be intimately involved with the architecture of the suburb, but also play a key role in providing the furniture for these dwellings.

Ambrose Heal, Hugh Mackey Baillie Scott and C.F.A Voysey would lead the way in designing furniture that was both affordable to those moving into the new housing and also, as Jeremy Cooper has noted, furniture that were ‘particularly suited to new Garden City developments’.

As part of the Hampstead Garden Suburb centenary celebrations the country’s leading specialists in Arts & Crafts Furniture, the Millinery Works Gallery based in Islington, have put together a selling exhibition of Arts & Crafts furniture that captures this special moment in the development of domestic urban living: "…modern creative work inspired, as all good work is, by the best of what has gone before, but individual, appropriate, admirably planned and soundly wrought".

With many examples by Ambrose Heal, who through Heal & Son on Tottenham Court Road, made outstanding contributions to the furnishing of the Garden Suburbs, and other leading designers and retailers, the exhibition will provide an unique opportunity, in the very heart of the community, to see the original items of furniture that sat harmoniously with William Morris’s dictum to ‘have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ and which were an integral part of creating ‘…His clear heaven and these few lanes of elm, And whispering oak’.

Exhibition Dates: 

Opening and Private View: 

Sunday 22 July 12 - 5pm

Exhibition runs until Sunday 12 August

11.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Saturday 

12 - 5pm Sunday.

Venue: The Main Hall, 

The Henrietta Barnett School

Central Square

London NW11 7BN

Get your souvenir programme by following this link: http://centenary.hgs.org.uk/souvenirs.htm

We can supply professional top quality transparencies and full background information on all the exhibits. Please call Jeff Jackson on 020 7359 2019 or email paul@millineryworks.co.uk for further details.

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