Arts and crafts houses in the Lake District / Matthew Hyde, Esmé Whittaker ; photographs by Val Corbett.
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TextPublisher: London : Frances Lincoln, 2014Edition: First Frances Lincoln editionDescription: 240 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmContent type: - still image
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- unmediated
- volume
- 0711234086 (hbk.)
- 9780711234086 (hbk.)
- Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Lake District -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works
- Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Lake District -- History -- 19th century
- Artists -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Lake District -- Pictorial works
- Artists -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Lake District
- Arts and crafts movement -- England -- Lake District -- History
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book is the first to look at the development of the Arts and Crafts movement in the Lake District. The movement flourished there for a brilliant decade at the beginning of the twentieth century. The houses created by some of Britain's leading architects are arguably among the most beautiful family homes ever built and were fitted out with perfectionist eyes for craftsmanship. The authors document and describe these unique houses showing how architects and clients worked together to make the most of the Lakeland settings and adapt to the vernacular styles and crafts of the Lakes. Blackwells, Broadleys and Moor Crag by Voysey and Baillie Scott are well known but there are a host of other remarkable buildings and interiors that are now hotels or regularly open their doors to visitors. Specially commissioned photographs show the houses in their setting and the detail - tiles, carving, plasterwork and ironware - of their interiors.
The introduction explaining the lure of the Lake District as a holiday destination for wealthy northern industrialists is followed by a chapter describing how and where the lake or hillside sites for their houses were chosen. There follows what is effectively a summation of the architects and their houses, taking each and their interior fittings in turn. The artefacts and craftsmen and women involved with the decoration are then given a chapter as is the lifestyle of the families who enjoyed these houses and the leisure pursuits found all around them. The brief conclusion wonders what the legacy of these houses may be and whether they can have worthy successors.
Matthew Hyde is an architectural historian and author of the recent Pevsner volume on the Buildings of Cumbria. Esm? Whittaker is on the staff at English Heritage. She hails from the Lake District and her doctoral thesis was a ground-breaking study on the much admired work of Dan Gibson. Val Corbett is well known as a landscape photographer based in the Lake District.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-225) and index.
This is the first book to fully explore the development of the Arts and Crafts movement in the Lake District. The Arts and Crafts flourished distinctively in the Lake District, as architects, craftsmen and builders responded to the outstandingly beautiful landscape, to the region's strong sense of tradition and local identity and to the writings of Wordsworth and Ruskin. For a short but intense period, from 1898 to 1910, this rural region became the focus of the latest architectural advances, resulting in a series of uniquely satisfying buildings. Specially commissioned photographs of the houses in their beautiful settings, and of their interiors, along with details of their hand-crafted fittings, are supplemented with paintings, drawings, photographs and plans from public and private collections. Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House renovated by the Lakeland Arts Trust in 2001, receives around 40,000 visitors a year. This book reveals the extent and importance of the many other excellent examples of Arts and Crafts architecture in the Lake District.