English arts and crafts

An 1891 London property boasting four bedrooms and a purpose-built studio with double-storey window is perfect for those who paint – or dance – at home

For those who are interested in my History of Styles column, this post is for you and I want to talk about one of my favourite styles - the Arts and Crafts.

Architectural Digest no Instagram: “In the entry of a 1904 English Arts and Crafts–style house reimagined by designer @ninafarmerinteriors, a Pierre Jeanneret chair sits…”

The designers/owners kept the home's original Arts and Crafts style posts.

Peter Zimmerman Architects' renovation and sympathetic addition to this English Arts and Crafts house in Philadelphia earns them a 2013 Palladio Award.

The May 2018 issue of House & Garden is full of goodness (it’s my favorite shelter magazine these days) and gracing the cover is a dreamy home decorated by Ben Pentreath. The architect and interior designer can do no wrong in my book and this Arts and Crafts abode is yet another Pentreath masterpiece. Set […]

How to do an Arts & Crafts interior | House & Garden

The movement’s furniture proves that Arts & Crafts is a design philosophy and a way of working, much more so than a “style.” How else to explain so many design vocabularies?

In the mid-1860s a carpenter in Sussex, England named Ephraim Colman had a brilliant idea, to make a chair with an adjustable back. The idea was sketched by Warrington Taylor, and adapted by Phillip…

An enlightened architect's interpretation of British Arts & Crafts precedents, for a house in New Jersey.