David Cole Great Houses of the Arts & Crafts Movement : One Hundred

A beautifully illustrated and extensively researched collection of 100 of the most famous houses of Britains Arts and Crafts Movement. The Arts and Crafts Movement, founded in the philosophies of John Ruskin and William Morris, produced some of the worlds most enduring architectural masterpieces. Author and architect David Cole presents the 100 great Arts and Crafts houses, each individually described and analysed with insightful detail and floor plans, and illustrated with stunning photography. Beginning with Morriss own iconic Red House, the book traces the fiftyyear span of the movement, with a short chapter dedicated to each of these extraordinary houses from the works of the pioneer Arts and Crafts architects, to the great reformer architects of the next generation, to the craftsman architects who took their lives and their work to the countryside, to the movements Scottish architects, and finally to the houses of the Garden Cities and suburbs built through the movements last decade before the First World War. The book features the great houses of some forty of the movements most renowned architects, including Philip Webb, R. Norman Shaw, E.S. Prior, William Lethaby, C.F.A. Voysey, Edgar Wood, Ernest Gimson, the Barnsley brothers, C.R. Ashbee, M.H. Baillie Scott, Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer, Parker and Unwin, and many others. As Morris famously said, "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." | David Cole Great Houses of the Arts & Crafts Movement : One Hundred