Charles Voysey (architect) Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941) was an English architect and furniture and textile designer. Voysey's early work was as a designer of wallpapers, fabrics and furnishings in a simple Arts and Crafts style, but he is renowned as the architect of a number of notable country houses. He was one of the first people to understand and appreciate the significance of industrial design. In 1874 Voysey was articled for five years to the architect J. In 1879 Voysey spent a brief period as assistant to the architect Henry Saxon Snell (1830–1904), and from 1880 to 1881 he worked as an assistant in the office of George Devey, who was a follower of his father's Theistic Church. Textile design circa 1888 Voysey's designs in the field of applied art included furniture, wallpapers, fabrics, carpets, tiles, metalwork, ceramics and graphic design. Voysey was a distinguished designer of flat patterns for wallpapers, fabrics, carpets and tiles . Voysey died in Winchester in 1941.[7] References
Thomas Chippendale Marquetry commode attributed to Chippendale, c. 1778 Thomas Chippendale (probably born at Otley, West Riding of Yorkshire, baptised at Otley 16 June [O.S. 5 June] 1718 – November 1779)[1] was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director. The designs are regarded as reflecting the current London fashion for furniture for that period[2] and were used by other cabinet makers outside London. Life[edit] "A Design for a State Bed" from the Director, 1762 Chippendale was the only child of John Chippendale (1690–1768), joiner, and his first wife Mary (née Drake) (1693–1729). In 1749 Chippendale rented a modest house in Conduit Court, near Covent Garden. There is a statue and memorial plaque dedicated to Chippendale outside The Old Grammar School Gallery in Manor Square, in his home town of Otley, near Leeds, Yorkshire. Work[edit] See also[edit]
Thomas Sheraton Thomas Sheraton (1751 – 22 October 1806) was a furniture designer, one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite.[1] Biography[edit] Starting in 1791 he published in four volumes The Cabinet Maker's and Upholsterer's Drawing Book. In 1803 he published The Cabinet Dictionary, a compendium of instructions on the techniques of cabinet and chair making. Sheraton's name is associated with the styles of furniture fashionable in the 1790s and early 19th century. See also[edit] References[edit]
John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century, and up to the First World War. Early life (1819–1846)[edit] Genealogy[edit] Childhood and education[edit] Travel[edit] First publications[edit] Oxford[edit]
William Morris William Morris self-portrait, 1856 William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English artist, writer, textile designer and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and English Arts and Crafts Movement.[1][2] He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, and was a direct influence on postwar authors such as J. R. Life[edit] Early life and education[edit] William Morris was born in Walthamstow on 24 March 1834, the third child and the eldest son of William Morris, a partner in the firm of Sanderson & Co., bill brokers in the City of London. Morris's painting La belle Iseult, also inaccurately called Queen Guinevere, is his only surviving easel painting, now in the Tate Gallery. Marriage and family[edit]
Barnsley brothers Ernest and Sidney Barnsley were Arts and Crafts movement master builders, furniture designers and makers associated with Ernest Gimson. In the early 20th century they had workshops at Sapperton, Gloucestershire. Sidney's son, Edward continued the family tradition, making fine furniture according to his fathers philosophy and became a figure head in his own right. They were also associated with the designers and makers Gordon Russell and the Dutchman Peter Waals,or van der Waals. Grade I listed church - Church of Jesus Christ and the Wisdom of God[edit] Interior showing chancel section of above church Sidney Barnsley rebuilt a church, formerly in Hagia Sophia in 1891 in the free Byzantine style. Interior features include: Arts and Crafts movement lectern, pulpit and reading desk, in ebony and holly with mother of pearl inlay, priests' chairs with domed canopies, byzantine capitals from Constantinople and Ephesus decorating the aisles and west wall.[1] Rodmarton Manor[edit] WikiMiniAtlas
Ernest Gimson Ernest William Gimson (Leicester, 21 December 1864 – Sapperton, 12 August 1919) was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers".[1] Today his reputation is securely established as one of the most influential designers of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Early career[edit] 118 New Walk, Leicester: Gimson's childhood home Ernest Gimson was born in Leicester, in the East Midlands of England, in 1864, the son of Josiah Gimson, engineer and iron founder, owner of the Vulcan Works. Two years later, aged 21, Gimson had both architectural experience and a first class result from classes at Leicester School of Art. After a spell travelling in both Britain and Europe, Gimson settled in London again and in 1889 he joined Morris’s Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB). Sapperton, Gloucestershire[edit] The Leasowes Coxen
John Paul Miller John Paul Miller (23 April 1918 Huntington, West Virginia - 1 March 2013 Cleveland, Ohio) was a noted American jewellery designer and goldsmith, who also produced films, photographs and paintings. Stephen Harrison, decorative arts curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art, compares Miller's work with that of René Lalique and Louis Comfort Tiffany.[1] Miller's mother died when he was two, after which his family moved to Cleveland, where he attended Hough Elementary School and later Shaker Heights High School. He then enrolled in classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art following this with courses at the Cleveland School of Art where he studied enameling with Kenneth F. Bates (1904-1994). In 1936 he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art's industrial design program. Inspired by the silver jewellery of another student, Frederick A. At once an artist, teacher, and craftsman, John Paul Miller personifies a lifetime of creative expression. Awards[edit] External links[edit] References[edit]
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