While the literary output of members of the Bloomsbury Group has been thoroughly scrutinized, another aspect of their activity has been largely overlooked, that is, their designs for the decorative arts. The Omega Workshops, started in London in 1913 by Roger Fry, were a venture without precedent, aiming to produce decorative art from a background ...
Demonstrates how the style of the arts and crafts movement, which flowered in the 1870s and 1880s, was used by the liberal middle class as a reaction against the flowery excesses of the early 19th century. Pictorial essays provide detailed explanations of architecture, interiors and furnishings.
The Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866 - 1935) first established a worldwide reputation as a designer of flatware, hollowware, and jewellery in the arts and crafts idiom of the early twentieth century, then went on to become a foremost international designer of elegant and refined silver creations in the modernist style. This book surveys his ...
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