The city Le Corbusier built: inside Chandigarh – in pictures
Artworks made from fire-gutted Mackintosh library sell for £700,000
Artworks made from fire-gutted Mackintosh library sell for £700,000
Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, highlighted in new Lakeland Heritage Package
Historic Lancashire’s Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, is firmly cementing itself into the Lakeland tourist experience, as these two reports show…
Businesses to showcase Lake District heritage at British Travel and Tourism Show
Everything You Need to Know About Art Deco Architecture in 10 Buildings
The latest in the series of architecture in 10 buildings… England does rather well with 4 out of the 10 buildings, including Florin Court, London home of the TV version of Hercule Poirot…
http://www.highsnobiety.com/2017/03/21/art-deco-architecture-examples/
Art in the Square – tile exhibition at Darmstadt Artists’ Colony
The third art nouveau event to report on this month is at the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony, famous for its wonderful art nouveau buildings. The exhibition mainly concerns art nouveau tiles and the centrepiece is a collection of English tiles, including designs by Wiliam De Morgan and tiles by Pilkington’s Tile & Pottery Co. See…
http://www.mathildenhoehe.eu/ausstellungen/ornament-im-quadrat/
Article with more photos… (press the translate button)
Nb. The Mathildenhöhe Institute has a wonderful website, see…
BANAD – Brussels Art Nouveau Art Deco festival
The annual BANAD festival is all about Brussels’ art nouveau and deco heritage. It is now integrated into the city’s wider tourism drive and the following Guardian article and BANAD website give you a flavour of what has been on offer this year…
Bannad Website… http://www.banad.brussels/en/
Guardian article – https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/mar/13/10-top-tips-from-our-brussels-correspondent
Liberty in Italy
Liberty in Italy is an interesting Italian exhibition on the so-called minor artists of art nouveau. In their day, these were prominent practitioners and part of the cultural world that Edgar Wood experienced during his regular trips to Italy and his eventual retirement there. The exhibition has been so popular that the initial closing date of 14th February was extended till 1st April.
The exhibition website has a selection of images…
http://www.palazzomagnani.it/2016/07/liberty-in-italia/nggallery/slideshow
Victor Horta’s art nouveau Hotel Frison up for sale
Victor Horta’s art nouveau Hotel Frison is up for sale… worth a look for the photos…
Glasgow School of Art’s ashes turned into artworks to fund rebuild
Glasgow School of Art’s ashes turned into artworks to fund rebuild
One site has become two
The Arts & Crafts Church & Middleton Heritage site became too large and people have been struggling to get around it, so we have now divided it into two. Middleton Heritage is now at middletonheritage.co.uk while the Arts & Crafts Church and Edgar Wood continue here.
Now, we hope each site can develop and grow more freely and everyone will find navigation a little easier.
We hope this works for you too. Whether ‘yes’ or ‘no’, your feedback is always welcome…
Gaudi, Liberty and Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco Festival
Gaudi, Liberty and Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco Festival
Here are three recent articles of interest…
Five of the best Liberty prints, from over 140 years of extraordinary history
http://www.eturbonews.com/77329/brussels-art-nouveau-art-deco-festival-unmissable-event-fans-two
Buffalo, USA – Arts & Crafts Alliance – Frank Lloyd Wright Celebration
Starting on June 8, the 150th anniversary of Wright’s birth, the newly formed Buffalo Arts & Crafts Alliance will launch a four-month celebration of Wright’s work and Buffalo’s undersung role in the Arts & Crafts Movement.
Jonathan Katz, one of the alliance’s co-founders and organizer of the celebration, said it is an attempt to remind people about Buffalo’s central place in the legacy of American architecture and design and to reclaim its history as an incubator for one of the most important and wide-reaching aesthetic movements in American history.
Full report HERE
Josef Frank – Guardian Articles
The Guardian has run two illustrated articles on the late Arts & Crafts/modernist architect and designer Josef Frank… whose colourful textile designs are quite wonderful…
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/14/josef-frank-swedish-design-fabrics-furniture
Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London at the V&A
Here is a review by Anna Souter of the new exhibition about Lockwood Kipling and the Arts & Crafts of the Indian Punjsb at the V & A…
New Arts and Crafts Website for West London
A new website has just been launched highlighting West London’s Arts and Crafts heritage. The site is part of a £1 million Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) supported project that explains the Arts & Crafts Movement and how artists and craftsmen were drawn to Hammersmith because of two people – William Morris and Sir Emery Walker. The website coincides with the renovation of the William Morris Society’s building at 26 Upper Mall and Emery Walker’s residence at 7 Hammersmith Terrace.
Go to…
http://www.artsandcraftshammersmith.org.uk
Alternative Letchworth
A witty opinion piece in response to a current exhibition on Letchworth Garden City and the radical movement behind it.
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/12/20/letchworth-england-garden-city-new-towns-opinion-owen-hatherley/
Details of the exhibition…
http://www.letchworthgc.com/whats_on/event/alternative_letchworth_%E2%80%93_past_and_present
Edgar Wood Film
Thanks everyone for your wonderful messages of support!
All 440 of them! They have now been submitted with the Viridor grant and will also be forwarded to the Heritage Lottery Fund THI. Very many thanks.
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Embroidery at the Arts & Crafts Church
Here we have a new Arts & Crafts project for you. Why not… learn to embroider and have some fun?
CLICK HERE to download pdf
This is a day for those of you who would like to acquire or refresh some embroidery skills. Perhaps you want to move beyond cross stitch, perhaps you want to remind yourself of skills learnt in the past, or perhaps you simply want to have an enjoyable day learning something new at The Arts & Crafts Church.
This day offers an introduction to surface stitching on linen fabric using crewel wools. By the end of the day you will have learnt enough to be able to finish your kit at home. The course will take place in one of the meeting rooms in the historic setting of Long Street Methodist Church.
The course price is £45 + booking fee and for that you will receive five hours tuition, a kit with all necessary materials and instructions, tea/coffee etc. You can borrow embroidery frames and scissors on the day at no charge. For lunch you can bring your own or buy something at Ye Olde Boar’s Head PH, the oldest pub in the North-West, just next door.
The day will be lead by Helen Jones, an accredited tutor with the Royal School of Needlework – see http://www.royal-needlework.org.uk/courses/tutor_details/69
Another Edgar Wood building is being restored
Guardian Buildings were originally the headquarters and printshop for the Middleton Guardian newspaper, which is still going strong today. They were designed by Edgar Wood in 1889 in a simple direct way with an art nouveau verticality and a pair of strong gables.
Never expensive, the building has been known only in a very mutilated form for several decades. That is until now, as the Edgar Wood and Middleton THI is funding its restoration to something close to its original form. We look forward to the result!
In 1906, the owner of Guardian Buildings, Fred Bagot, also commissioned Edgar Wood to build him a new home at 36 Mellalieu Street. It was his first flat roofed design and has also been restored by the THI.