Great Houses of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Based on the philosophies of John Ruskin and William Morris, the Arts and Crafts movement gave rise to some of the world’s most timeless architectural masterpieces.

This volume presents the 100 finest houses of the movement, each described and analysed in detail, accompanied by floor plans and illustrated with photographs of the interiors and exteriors. Beginning with Morris’s own famous ‘Red House’, the book traces the movement’s fifty-year history, with a short chapter devoted to each of these houses: from the works of the pioneering Arts and Crafts architects to the great reformist architects of the following generation, including the artisan architects who made their homes in the countryside, the Scottish architects of the movement, and finally the houses in garden cities and suburbs built during the movement’s final decade, before the First World War.

The book presents the major residences of some forty of the movement’s most renowned architects, including Philip Webb, R. Norman Shaw, E.S. Prior, William Lethaby, C.F.A. Voysey, Edgar Wood, Ernest Gimson, the Barnsley brothers, C.R. Ashbee, M.H. Baillie Scott, Edwin Lutyens and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.