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Arts & Crafts: Craftmenship
Arts and Crafts architecture placed an emphasis on individual craft skills in both building and the decorative arts.
Design for a decorative iron door hinge
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NOTES: This image is from a volume of drawings (entitled Vol II) by various designers produced for or presented to the Quarto Imperial Club, London, between 1892 and 1897.
Carthusian Monastery of Santa Maria de la Defension, Jerez: study of tiles with a sketched perspective of the cloisters
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NOTES: This image is from a volume of drawings (entitled Vol I) by various designers produced for or presented to the Quarto Imperial Club, London, between 1889 and 1891.
Sandhouse, Witley, Surrey: the entrance hall decorated with the coloured frieze by Godfrey Blount
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NOTES: Built for the politician Joseph King, this house has latterly been known as 'Kingwood'. Godfrey Blount, a friend of C. R. Ashbee, set up with his wife Ethel Hine, The Haslemere Peasant Industries in I896 to revive local craft traditions. This frieze was later removed.
Red House, Bexleyheath, London: the living room
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NOTES: Philip Webb designed the building for his friend the artist William Morris, but Morris was responsible for the interior decoration.
Gate for New Place, Haslemere, Surrey, executed by W B Reynolds of 7b Old Town, Clapham, London
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NOTES: New Place house and garden (originally called Hurtmore) were designed by Voysey in 1897 for the publisher A. M. M. Stedman, who later changed his name to Algernon Methuen. Additions in 1899 included a lodge, a gardener's cottage, stables and a summer-house, while in 1901 Voysey designed new gates and laid out an additional formal garden. A year later the rose-garden was redesigned by Gertrude Jekyll.
St Andrew's Church, Roker, Sunderland: detail of wrought-iron cross made by Alfred Bucknell
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NOTES: The church was designed by E. S. Prior and A. Randall Wells, who had been Lethaby's Clerk of Works at Brockhampton (1904). Many of the fixtures and fittings are by Ernest Gimson, notably the oak panelled chancel and the oak choir stalls. This cross was designed by Gimson and made by his blacksmith Alfred Bucknell in his Sapperton workshop.