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the-cricket-chirps · 5 months
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William Morris and John Henry Dearle
The Bullerswood Carpet
1889, London, England
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arthistoryanimalia · 1 month
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#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:
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165 & 349 “Porcupine”
Usually these tile pairs are duplicate compositions, but not these! 👀
From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.
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theamazingsaraman · 8 months
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They look familiar…
I have a card with this image on it from the National Gallery of Ireland which I definitely didn’t buy solely because it reminded me of Crowley and Aziraphale 😅 now that we’ve seen them both in angel form together it seems particularly perfect. The Crowley one even has a plant 🪴😌
‘Two Winged Angels in Profile’ 1924, Harry Clarke, Oil on canvas
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nuveau-deco · 2 years
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Rookwood Pottery Trivet Featuring a Rook. American, manufactured in 1919, medium is matte-glazed earthenware. Dimensions: 14.3 x 14.3 x 2.2 cm.
(Source: collection.imamuseum.org)
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the-darling-house · 1 year
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The parlour was a striking room even by the standards of Penhallick House. The Morris paper on the walls held a dense pattern of leaves and clusters of flowers in red and blue and yellow, woven through with thorny tendrils studded with tinier flowers in startling white. It filled the walls in wide panels between dark, carved wood that stretched from the floor and formed arching ribs where it met the ceiling.
- A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske
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thejewellerybox · 6 months
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Pendant / brooch attributed to Karl Rothmuller, circa 1910
Opal, pearl, demantoid garnet and ruby with a bezel-set black opal and black enamel detail.
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cair--paravel · 1 year
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An Arts and Crafts silver, opal and pearl necklace, attributed to the Birmingham School, c. 1910 (via).
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dresshistorynerd · 1 year
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Favorite Historical Architectural Styles
Since I've done my favorite historical fashions, I thought it would be fun to do historical architectural styles too. I want to write more about architecture too, but I've started thinking should I do a separate blog for architecture and architectural history or should I just do it all here? I think it would be better in a way that I wouldn't have to worry if anything I want to write is too far from the actual topic of the blog, but then again, there is a lot of overlap, especially when it comes to Arts and Crafts movement (which I'm currently writing my thesis about and which I definitely will talk a lot about), and also I would have to manage yet another blog.
Anyway, I'll again do this from oldest to newest. I will limit myself to western styles (except when we get to Modernism all styles are very international), even though there's a lot of non-western styles I enjoy, but it's what I know most about.
Perpendicular Gothic
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I love Gothic architecture in general and the several first entries will be my favorite sub-styles of it. I love the the way Gothic Cathedrals try and so often succeed to feel like forests. I love how the structural elements are used to create the aesthetic. I love the organic visual elements. I love that it's such a unique style in Western architecture. And I love the amazing craftsmanship that went into it.
I'm particularly a fan of English Gothic because of it's insanely beautiful and complex ribbed vaults. From English Gothic my favorite though is the Perpendicular style, which was basically the English late Gothic. It's characteristics can be seen in the second pic. It has the stretched arch and the very flowing and organic traceries. I do include here the rest of English Gothic too, since even though the Perpendicular style is my favorite of them, all if it is still one of my Gothic favorites.
German Late Gothic
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As it's becoming clear I love Late Gothic architecture in general the most, and in the geographical axis I also love German Gothic. Early and High Gothic were mainly divided into French and English styles and the French style dominated in the continent, just being altered a little to the local building traditions outside of France, but during late Gothic it diverged much more strongly into different styles.
German Gothic also has beautiful complex faulting (though less insane than English) and it also has that same pursuit of massive height French Gothic has. Those combined with that Late Gothic's more streamlined flowing and organic aesthetic, some of the German Late Gothic cathedrals really sell that feeling of standing in a forest.
Finnish "Gothic"
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I have a soft spot for the Finnish Medieval stone churches, which are not nearly as sophisticated or detailed as the other European counterparts, but still made with beautiful craftsmanship and they have some cool own features. It's very far from the European Gothic traditions, as you can see, but that's still the influence, hence Gothic in scare quotes. I love the simple outward appearance with the exposed thick stone walls, the details of the gable that worked as the calling card for the building master and the very steep roof. Like everywhere at the time, the roof in these has wooden structure, which is frankly super cool. It was not a simple engineering problem to make a roof that steep and massive at the time, but the structure works so well there's 600 year old roofs with the original logs still working perfectly well. I also really love the original medieval murals in them, which were painted over during the Reformation (you can't have color in a Lutheran church damn it), but thankfully some of them have been restored from under the paint.
Finnish "Renaissance" Log Churches
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Renaissance also didn't land in Finland similarly as it did rest of the Europe. When Renaissance was going on in Europe, they still were building those "Gothic" churches here. These log churches were based on Scandinavian version of the Renaissance church, but they didn't really look like Renaissance churches, and were kinda it's own thing continuing a lot of the aesthetics from those Gothic churches. This is a highly specific style, but I just think they are so cool and pretty? Like they really made a CUPOLA out of log.
Arts and Crafts Movement
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Arts and Crafts Movement didn't have exactly a style, rather a design philosophy that was more important than specific style. There's of course a lot of stylistic similarities in the works of the different members of the Movement, because they had overlapping sources of inspiration and were influenced by each other, so we can think of it as a style. I could, have and will talk about them for hours, but briefly now: It was a moment in latter half of the 19th century and early 20th century and their goals were reviving craftsmanship skills and professions, socialism, opposing industrialism and abolishing the hierarchy between fine arts and applied arts. They were very much influenced by Medievalism and Gothic art and architecture, though unlike Gothic Revivalist, they took more from the guiding principles than the aesthetics. They basically started Modernism and lay ground to all the Modernist architecture's main principles, like form follows function.
Art Nouveau
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Art Nouveau was directly influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement and was the first mainstream Modernist style. I especially love the more toned down Finnish Art Nouveau, or Jugend as it's called here, but I do love the style more broadly too. I'm not that into those almost Baroque style versions of it though, with barely any straight lines. I love the round doors, the stylized floral patterns and the use of light.
Organic architecture
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This has to be my favorite modernist/post-modernist (?) style. It's direct successor of Arts and Crafts movement and it's also more of a design principle than a unified style. There is some stylistic similarities, but it is stylistically very diverse philosophy. It was most prominent during the 20th century, but it always stayed in the sidelines, though there are still architects who might be considered practicing organic architecture. Organic architecture is all about living in harmony with nature, taking inspiration from it, designing the building to fit the building spot and the surroundings, extra care taken in to preserve the nature already there, and using local natural materials when possible. My favorite architects are Raili and Reima Pietilä, who were most prominent organic architects in Finland. (I almost moved into apartment designed by them, but it was in pretty bad condition, so it wouldn't have unfortunately been worth the price.)
Brutalism
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I know it's not for everyone and it's not easy to make it work but when it works, it really does. It was born in 1950s during the reconstruction era. Brutalism is not just concrete though. The point is to show the raw materials and the structural elements. Technically a lot of Gothic and Arts and Crafts architecture is then brutalist. Timber frame architecture? Also brutalist. I'm only half joking, of course the style itself is also very bare and, well, brutal, but I love it for the same reasons. I really love bare textures of materials and exposing the materials of the structural elements. And I do actually really like the texture of concrete. Though I will say concrete is destroying our world and we should use it as little as possible. But we should also protect old buildings and keep using them rather than built new ones, so I feel fine admiring the old brutalist buildings. The best brutalist buildings combine materials very intentionally and make works of art with the light.
Bonus - Favorite contemporary architecture: Traditional methods
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As we're living in the post-modern times, there's not really unified and specifiable styles or architectural ideologies anymore. They all kinda flow into each other and architects don't organize themselves into clear groups based on style and design philosophy. So it's hard to put into words the style I like in contemporary architecture. There's been growing interest in studying traditional structures and methods, learn from their sustainability and incorporate them into contemporary architecture. They are techniques that have been developed through trial and error on the span of centuries, so we really don't have to reinvent the wheel here. Traditional methods of a given area have also been developed for that area and it's climate, from the materials available there, so they also push us to use local materials. Typically these traditional structures are very simple, often made from solid material, which makes them easier to built without construction error (a huge problem in modern structures), and easier to fix and maintain, when inevitably there is issues. Also they are beautiful, definitely more so that steel and glass. I love solid brick structures, log structures, timber frames, natural stone, rammed earth and all of them, especially when these beautiful materials are left bare.
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Kate Greenaway, from the Almanac for 1884
via digitalcollections.nypl.org
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uwmspeccoll · 4 months
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Publishers' Binding Thursday
It's an Arts and Crafts Publishers' Binding Thursday this week, with A Book of Old English Ballads featuring illustrations by American painter, illustrator, and author George Wharton Edwards. Published in New York by the Macmillan Company, the book includes an introduction by American essayist, critic, and editor Hamilton W. Mabie. The illustrations and cover are done in the Arts and Crafts style, which flourished between 1880 and 1920. This book was published in 1896 at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement.
The cover has the same rather ornate design as the title page, which features a harpist playing under a lit lamp. The illustrations are detailed and the decorations equally so. The spine features the title, illustrator, and introducer in ornate fonts.
View more Publishers' Binding Thursdays here.
-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
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pagansphinx · 7 months
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William Morris (British, 1834-1896) • Pink and Rose wallpaper, intertwined stems of flowering carnations and roses • 1890
William Morris is best known as the 19th century's most celebrated designer, but he was also a driven polymath who spent much of his life fighting the consensus. A key figure in the Arts & Crafts Movement, Morris championed a principle of handmade production that didn't chime with the Victorian era's focus on industrial 'progress'. Our collections hold a huge amount of his work – not only wallpapers and textiles but also carpets, embroideries, tapestries, tiles and book designs.
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
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La Belle Iseult • 1858 • Oil on canvas • Tate, London
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The Woodpecker tapestry • 1885 •
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Centenary exhibition poster • Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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the-cricket-chirps · 5 months
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William Morris and Phillip Webb
Trellis wallpaper
Printed by Jeffrey & Co.
1862, England
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arthistoryanimalia · 2 months
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For #SquirrelAppreciationDay:
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12, 28, 35, 140 “Grey Squirrel”
From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.
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thebeautifulbook · 10 months
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THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE AND OTHER POEMS by William Morris. (London/New York/Bombay: Longmans, Green, 1900) Reprinted from the Kelmscott Press edition. Art binding.
Originally issued in 1858 when the author was just 24 years old. Morris first became enamored with all things medieval while a student of Oxford. This unattributed binding is a lovely example of the Arts and Crafts style.
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text [a later edition]
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nuveau-deco · 2 years
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Jewelry Segment. Designed by Jessie M. Preston ca. 1900-1917, Chicago. Mother-of-pearl mounted in silver.
(Source: artic.edu)
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mollyvega · 7 months
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This elegant Arts and Crafts Movement moth is Sabrina
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