C F A Voysey
The life and work of the renowned Arts and Crafts architect.
Wendy Hitchmough
- The first definitive survey of the life and work of C F A Voysey (1857-1941), one of the most renowned British Arts and Crafts architects prior to the First World War
- Combines contemporary sources - photographs, quotations, original wallpaper designs and watercolour perspectives - with specially commissioned photography of his houses
- Examines Voysey's role as a vital link between the Arts and Crafts movement and Modernism, and as an influential figure in Europe and America
- Considers Voysey's architecture in detail, with photo portfolios of 14 houses, and many others analysed throughout
Paperback
250 x 290 mm, 9 7/8 x 11 3/8 in
240 pp
250 colour illustrations
90 black and white illustrations
ISBN 9780714837123
0714837121
From the 1890s until the outbreak of World War I, C F A Voysey (1857-1914) was one of the most successful and renowned British Arts and Crafts architects. His elegant, white-rendered houses with stone window dressings and sweeping green-slate roofs combined clarity with a sensual appreciation of natural materials. A designer of all things domestic, as well as an architect, he was often involved in every aspect of a house's interior from wallpaper, curtains and furniture to fire grates. Moreover, the fluid curves of his decorative designs and the elongated simplicity of his furniture prove him to be a vital historical link between the Arts and Crafts and the Modern movements.
The first definitive account of Voysey's architectural career, this book combines contemporary sources - photographs, quotations, original wallpaper designs and watercolour perspectives - with specially commissioned photography of his houses.
Wendy Hitchmough is a historian specializing in architecture of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
'The Voysey book that we have been waiting for. A rounded and perceptive portrait. It will remain the definitive biography.' (Architectural Review)