The Art of CFA Voysey: English Pioneer Modernist Architect & Designer - Tapa dura

Voysey is much celebrated as a leading figure of the Arts and Craft movment in Britian. His style formed a 'pattern book' for suburban white-painted homes in Britian, the USA, Canada and Australia between the Wold Wars. This book takes us deep into the creative mind that helped spark the beloved Arts and crafts movment- and it's a pleasant place to pass time.' --Review of Voysey title in the latest issue (October) of HOUSES magazine

'The Art and Architecture of CFA Voysey sits comfortably within the catalogue of books on Voysey and his work. It is a light read suitable for the casual reader, but is much more than just a beautiful coffee table book. It contains enough original thought, detailed referencing and descriptive clarity for the most seasoned Voysey admirer.' --Nicholas Vaughan Roberts, Building & Design Online UK

Cole is forthright about his own goal: he intends to use the drawings to extend Pevsner s argument on Voysey s pioneering status. After a brief twenty-page overview of Voysey s career, Cole devotes the bulk of the book to the presentation and description of approximately seventy of the drawings. Drawings are grouped not by commission but by type: there are separate chapters on elevations, perspectives, and detail drawings. --CFA Voysey

CFA Voysey is regarded as one of the pioneers of the Modern movement of architecture and design, and one of the most influential and important of all the 19th and early 20th century British designers. CFA Voysey is regarded as one of the pioneers of the Modern movement of architecture and design, and one of the most influential and important of all the 19th and early 20th century British designers. He designed over 60 houses throughout England, from small cottages and gate lodges to suburban houses and substantial country house commissions. Voysey was the 'complete designer'; he designed all manner of objects, from wallpaper to cutlery, textiles to furniture, war memorials to stained glass windows, and bookplates. As a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain his fame and influence extended to the United States to the next generation of American Arts and Crafts architects and early Modernists, notably Greene and Greene, Bernard Maybeck and Frank Lloyd Wright. In Europe, fundamental aspects of Voysey's design approach were embraced by the Dutch De Stijl group; during the 1920s, and eventually also by the German Bauhaus movement. SELLING POINTS: - CFA Voysey was one of the first people to understand and appreciate the significance of industrial design - Voysey's designs in the field of applied art included furniture, wallpapers, fabrics, carpets, tiles, metalwork, ceramics and graphic design. Sometimes he designed bespoke artefacts for his own buildings, and sometimes he sold designs to manufacturers for wider use