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Arts and Crafts Houses in the Lake District

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Imprint: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Published: 1st Sep 2014
Dimensions: w 240mm h 295mm d 27mm
Weight: 1610g
ISBN-10: 0711234086
ISBN-13: 9780711234086
Barcode No: 9780711234086
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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. Esme 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.

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'Much has been written about Arts and Crafts architecture in general, and domestic design in particular, but this book is a strong addition to the canon and will be especially appealing to those who know and appreciate both the natural and built heritage of the Lake District.' Perspective Magazine 'Rightly devoted' RIBA Friends Magazine 'Magnificent and beautiful book.' Cumberland News 'These extraordinary houses are shown in the beauty of their setting, their construction and their exquisite detailing. The reader will look at them with new eyes.' Workington Times and Star Book of the Month Coast Magazine