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Arts
& Crafts
We specialise in the furniture and effects of the Arts & Crafts Movement
- from its beginnings in circa 1840 up to 1940, from Gothic
Reform through to The Cotswold School
Many movements in art & design begin with a reaction against a prevailing trend.
By 1840 the tendency to decorate excessively that had begun with William
IV was taking hold and is now generally described as "Victorian". Much of the Victorian design was a degeneration of previous historical styles including that of the Medieval Gothic Period.
A W N Pugin’s work, however, was a tribute to the original Gothic
design purity and he vehemently criticised any that was not. This criticism was carried forward by the writing of
Ruskin and, later, William Morris who wrote against the shoddy workmanship & design of
industrialised mass commercialism. Morris believed in providing quality, craftsman-made design to the masses.
The key concepts to these thinkers were those of Honesty of construction,
Truth to materials, Beauty in design and Functionalism. Arts & Crafts therefore can be seen as a description of a philosophy rather than of a particular design style. It encompasses, among others, works as varied as those of the
Glasgow Spook Style and Cotswold Schools. The principles were most successfully exploited commercially by
firms like Liberty & Co,
Wylie & Lochhead, Heal
& Son and Gordon Russell.
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are the categories into which our stock
falls. They are approximately in the chronological
order of the different schools and designers of the
Arts & Crafts Movement and lists some of the
designers and makers of our current stock.
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Gothic Reform and the Muscular Goths 1840-1880
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W N Pugin, J
P Seddon, Charles
Bevan, Charles
Eastlake, Alfred
Waterhouse, Gillows and Holland
& Sons
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2.
William Morris, The Firm and
The
Pre-Raphaelites 1860-1900
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William
Morris, May Morris, George Jack, Edward Burne-Jones,
Philip Webb, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Maddox
Brown.
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3.
The Aesthetic Movement –
The Anglo-Japanese style
1865-1885
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Bruce
Talbert, E
W Godwin, Christopher
Dresser, Gillows
& Co, Collinson
& Lock
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The Arts & Crafts Style 1890-1910
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C
R Ashbee, M
H Baillie Scott,
Lethaby,
C F A Voysey, Simpson
of Kendal, Walter Cave, Shapland
& Petter, Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson
and the Bath
Cabinet Makers.
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Heals & Co 1890-1940
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Ambrose
Heal, John
Stark, J F Johnson
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Liberty's 1883-1914
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Archibald
Knox, Leonard
Wyburd,
and
all the other 'hidden' designers
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7.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the
Glasgow Style -
1895-1910
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Charles
Rennie Mackintosh, Hubert MacNair, The
Macdonald sisters, Margaret Gilmour, George
Walton, Talwin Morris, Jessie
E King, E A Taylor, George
Logan, John Ednie, Wylie
& Lochhead
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The Viennese Secession and the Continental Movement
1900-1914
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Joseph
Hoffman, Otto Wagner, Koloman Moser, Thonet.
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The 'Cotswold' Style 1900-1940
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Ernest
Gimson, Peter Waals,
Sydney
and Edward Barnsley, Romney
Green, Stanley Davies, Kenton
& Co.
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American Arts & Crafts 1895-1925
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Stickley
Brothers, Roycroft, Limberts
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The Modern Movement and Art Deco 1920-1940
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Betty
Joel, Rowley
Gallery, Bath
Cabinet Makers
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Ceramics & Glass
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Branham,
Bretby, Lindthorpe,
Ault,
Upchurch, Clutha, James
Powell & Son of Whitefriars, Thomas Webb
of Stourbridge
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Metalware
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Archibald
Knox, W A S Benson,
John
Pearson, Edward
Spencer
&
the Artifices School, Keswick
School of Industrial Art, Hugh
Wallis, Newlyn,
Goberg
and Iona
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Textiles & Fabrics
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William
Morris, Thomas Wardle, Henry Dearle, Liberty, Anne
Macbeth, Jessie Newbery
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