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CFA Voysey /

By:

Hitchmough, Wendy

Contributor(s):

Voysey, Charles F. A, 1857-1941

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Phaidon, 1995.Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0714830038
9780714830032
0714837121
9780714837123

Other title:

C.F.A. Voysey

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

728/.092 21

LOC classification:

NA997.V6 H58 1995

Other classification:

21.72

Review: "C. F.A. Voysey was one of the most renowned British architects from the 1890s until the outbreak of the First World War. His white-rendered houses with stone window-dressings and sweeping slate roofs combined clarity and simplicity with a sensual appreciation of natural materials. However, it was his conviction that no detail of a house was too small to deserve the attention of its architect which led him to design everything from the plan of the garden to the handles on the kitchen-dresser." "Voysey's belief that the house should embody 'Quietness in a storm, Economy of upkeep, Evidence of Protection, Harmony with surroundings, Absence of dark passages' placed him at the heart of the Arts and Crafts Movement, while the elongated simplicity of his furniture together with the fluid, undulating curves of his decorative designs made him a formative influence on Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Henry van de Velde and the Art Nouveau style." "During the 1890s Voysey's reputation spread across Europe and America, only to be revived in the 1930s by John Betjeman, Nikolaus Pevsner and others in Britain, when he was hailed as a precursor of the Modern Movement. He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1940 at the age of eighty-three." "This monograph is illustrated with photographs specially commissioned from the photographer Martin Charles. Placed throughout the text, they form a comprehensive visual record of Voysey's work, as well as individual, detailed pictorial accounts of his major houses."--Jacket.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	NA997.V6 H58 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001325

Signed "D.S. Richardson" on lining page and " Borders, Ft Lauderdale, Fl. ( 39.95 -> Can $ 60.32 @1.15) August 1998" on table of contents

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index.

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