The Decorative Designs of C.F.A. Voysey: New Revised Edition: From the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects

by Stuart Durant

The Decorative Design of C.F.A. Voysey is the first book to place Voysey in his times. His was a dynamic age; 'Our descendants will envy the dawn through which we are passing', wrote a contemporary. Voysey's houses appealed to a forward-looking generation of intellectuals - writers and artists. Voysey learned architecture was an art from the Gothic Revival architect John Pollard Seddon - a friend and patron of the Pre-Raphaelites. Besides architecture,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718893883
• ISBN13: 9780718893880
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 152 Pages