Arts and Crafts Tiles: Morris to Voysey

Rob Higgins,Will Farmer

Arts and Crafts Tiles: Morris to Voysey
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 September 2017
Pages
96
ISBN
9781445672144

Arts and Crafts Tiles: Morris to Voysey

Rob Higgins,Will Farmer

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a reaction to the brutality of working life and the sterility of industrial design in Victorian Britain. Although Arts and Crafts was initially a mediaeval revival, the movement was always about the artist craftsman and the appropriate use of materials, rather than any single design tradition.

The movement was inspired and led by William Morris, whose company was founded in 1861 and produced a full range of interior furnishings, including tiles. These were designed by Morris himself, and also by leading artists and architects of the day such as Edward Burne Jones and Philip Webb. The term Arts and Crafts was formalised in the late 1880s, and many designers, artists and craftsmen joined Morris in this new movement, and leading designers including Walter Crane and C. F. A. Voysey produced distinctive and now highly collectable ceramic tiles that were used to decorate the bathrooms and the fireplaces of the wealthy and discerning.

This book, with its companion on the work of William de Morgan, is the first complete introduction to British Arts and Crafts tiles from 1860 to 1920.

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