Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160846 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
Arts and Crafts artist-designers changed the lives of Scots. Through the furnishing of public buildings, exhibitions, church craft and home design, they aimed to restore beauty to everyday experience. They worked in diverse fields such as furniture, textiles, jewellery and metalwork, glass, ceramics, mural decoration and architectural design and crafts. Theirs is a narrative of close networks of families and friends, men and women, designers and industrialists dedicated to the rights of the individual and to the proper place of art within modern society. It is a remarkable and often inspiring story of ideals, commitment - and imagination. Scottish Arts and Crafts brought together British design practice with the romance of tradition. This book for the first time provides a national context for the work of Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer, Phoebe Anna Traquair, and many new names that emerge from the shadows.

Customer Reviews

Scottish Arts & Crafts
As a Scot and a maker of Arts and Crafts furniture, I have an insatiable appetite for books on Scottish Arts and Crafts. Alas, outside the numerous tomes on Charles Rennie Mackintosh there are few. So this book was, for me, a must have. Sadly, it doesn't have nearly enough photos. Those it does have, however, are good and not the usual suspects (and C.R.M. is largely absent). But the book does have way too many words. As a former academic publisher, I shouldn't complain at how very learned this volume is. But unlike the high-brow scholastic material I used to publish which was seldom seen outside a university campus, this book will be read mostly by the educated public. It's not that it's badly written, it's just thick with facts and dates and people and institutions and just so, so many facts. I couldn't fit the readership bill better, a former academic with a present enthusiasm for the book's subject, but I still haven't waded my way through it after a year.