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This is a decisive book on Philip Webb (1831–1915), a pivotal figure in a Arts and Crafts transformation and a heading member of a Pre-Raphaelite circle, who has given emerged as one of a many critical architects of a nineteenth century. It provides a extensive comment of Webb’s pattern philosophy, his architectural work and his influence, while also revelation his fascinating life story.
Combining architectural story and biography, a constrained comment gives a full pattern of a impression of this unusual male – a male famous for his extensive integrity, who shunned broadside though though captivated clients of high standing and came to be one of a many poignant architectural innovators of his age. Interspersed with clear descriptions of Webb’s buildings, it covers his relations with his clients, contractors and artistic contemporaries. These embody his tighten friends in a Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were also 3 of his associate partners in a interior decorating and furnishing business, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.. As good as covering Webb’s work for a firm, a book includes his impasse with a Society for a Protection of Ancient Buildings, that he helped Morris to found, and for that he grown successful methods of repair buildings unobtrusively.
During a after twentieth century, Webb was cited as a colonize of Modern Movement architecture. This vaporous a border of his change on Arts and Crafts architecture, that was concurred during his tangible lifetime. Aimed during a wider public, as good as a educational world, this is a initial announcement to embody a systematic and minute research of Webb’s truth and all his work. It is expensively illustrated with new photography by Martin Charles, and plans, drawings, and repository photographs, that are brought together for a initial time.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3505704 in Books
- Published on: 2005-05-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.32" h x 1.10" w x 8.94" l, 3.65 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
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"...Superbly designed...Many will find impulse in this courteous and profitable book, and all will distinction from it." (The Burlington Magazine, Jun 2005)
"...a good story, really good told..." (Art Newspaper, Jul 1st 05)
"...This book takes a minute demeanour during each aspect of Webb's life and career...a good story, really good told..." (The Art Newspaper, Jul 05)
"...a beautifully illustrated and clearly argued comment of his life and work that should be review by anyone meddlesome in English domestic architecture..." (Country Life, 28th Jul 05)
"...an outstanding, beautifully constructed comment of this pivotal figure of nineteenth-century design" (The Tablet, 3rd Dec 05)
"...the initial entirely minute and systematic review of Webb's life." (The British Art Journal, Autumn 2005)
"...[Kirk's] solid, erudite outline of one of a many successful careers in British pattern is doubtful ever to be replaced." (Apollo, Nov 2005)
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This is a decisive book on Philip Webb (1831–1915), a pivotal figure in a Arts and Crafts transformation and a heading member of a Pre-Raphaelite circle, who has given emerged as one of a many critical architects of a nineteenth century. It provides a extensive comment of Webb’s pattern philosophy, his architectural work and his influence, while also revelation his fascinating life story.
Combining architectural story and biography, a constrained comment gives a full pattern of a impression of this unusual male – a male famous for his extensive integrity, who shunned broadside though though captivated clients of high standing and came to be one of a many poignant architectural innovators of his age. Interspersed with clear descriptions of Webb’s buildings, it covers his relations with his clients, contractors and artistic contemporaries. These embody his tighten friends in a Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were also 3 of his associate partners in a interior decorating and furnishing business, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.. As good as covering Webb’s work for a firm, a book includes his impasse with a Society for a Protection of Ancient Buildings, that he helped Morris to found, and for that he grown successful methods of repair buildings unobtrusively.
During a after twentieth century, Webb was cited as a colonize of Modern Movement architecture. This vaporous a border of his change on Arts and Crafts architecture, that was concurred during his tangible lifetime. Aimed during a wider public, as good as a educational world, this is a initial announcement to embody a systematic and minute research of Webb’s truth and all his work. It is expensively illustrated with new photography by Martin Charles, and plans, drawings, and repository photographs, that are brought together for a initial time.
About a Author
Dr Sheila Kirk is a freelance architectural historian. After gaining a initial gift in pattern in 1956, Sheila has been researching Webb’s life and work for twenty-five years, essay and lecturing about it widely. In 1990 she perceived a doctorate for her topic on Webb from a University of Newcastle on Tyne, where she after worked for some years as a lecturer, procedure leader, and mentor in architectural history. She co-organized a ‘Philip Webb in a North’ muster in Middlesbrough in 1984 and a general discussion on ‘Philip Webb and a Significance of a Arts and Crafts Movement Today’ during a University of York in 1996, and has created entries on Webb for a Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), a Macmillan Dictionary of Art (1996), and a on-line Grove Dictionary of Art.
Martin Charles came to architectural photography from film and TV in his 30s. He worked widely for Architectural Review and The Architects' Journal, as good as for particular architects, before relocating into a area of books and a pattern of a past. His photography has been featured in vital publications on Voysey and Lutyens and has mostly seemed in propinquity to a whole margin of a Arts & Crafts.
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