NEW BOOK - Arts & Crafts: Ideas that Shaped the World
This month we are launching a beautifully illustrated new book with essays on the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and Scandinavia. It has grown out of the conversations that we had last Spring in Sweden, when a group of curators, researchers and historians gathered at the historic Engelsberg Ironworks. We wanted to highlight new research on key figures, including Ruskin, Morris and Ashbee, as well as drawing attention to women's work, with an essay by Karen Livingstone. Qaisra Khan has also contributed an article that considers the influence of Islamic art on 19th and early 20th century design. We have also been able to include ground-breaking studies by Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark on the development of the Arts and Crafts Movement across Scandinavia, as well as essays on Swedish style and the Larsson family. Together Elisabeth Svalin Gunnarsson and I have edited these articles. It now is available to buy from Waterstones Here is an extract from our foreword Hand, ...
