A Woman's Touch

Examines the lives and work of pioneering women, such as Vanessa Bell, Sonia Delaunay, and Elsie de Wolfe, whose textile tableware, and furniture designs made important contibutions to the industry of interior design

Isabelle Anscombe

Arts & Photography

Penguin??Books

Arts and Crafts in Britain and America

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

A description of the history of the Omega Workshops, a gallery of decorative arts in the Bloomsbury district of London, examines the works exhibited there by artists, including Vanessa Bell, Wyndham Lewis, and Duncan Grant

Omega and After - Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts

John Lehmann

Thames&Hudson

While the literary output of members of the Bloomsbury Group has been thoroughly scrutinized, another aspect of their activity has been largely overlooked, that is, their designs for the decorative arts. The Omega Workshops, started in London in 1913 by Roger Fry, were a venture without precedent, aiming to produce decorative art from a background - not of crafts - but of painting. They boasted such talents as Vanessa Bell, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Duncan Grant and Wyndham Lewis. The Omega closed in 1919, but Bloomsbury decorative work did not cease. Vanessa Bell remained the central figure; settled into life at Charleston in Sussex, she and Duncan Grant continued to design objects and schemes, and her children later made their own contributions, Quentin as potter and Angelica as painter. Isabelle Anscombe's text, drawing on unpublished sources, catches the flavour of the time and its characters, from bohemians to haut monde. Howard Grey was allowed to print and reproduce early snapshot negatives, and his own photographs, begun before Duncan Grant's death, include unique records of Charleston still inhabited by one of its creators.

Omega and After: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts

Decorative Arts & Design

Book by Isabelle Anscombe, Charlotte Gere

Arts & crafts in Britain and America

Charlotte Gere

Rizzoli

Demonstrates how the style of the arts and crafts movement, which flowered in the 1870s and 1880s, was used by the liberal middle class as a reaction against the flowery excesses of the early 19th century. Pictorial essays provide detailed explanations of architecture, interiors and furnishings.

Arts & Crafts Style

History & Criticism

Examines the lives and work of pioneering women, such as Vanessa Bell, Sonia Delaunay, and Elsie de Wolfe, whose textile tableware, and furniture designs made important contibutions to the industry of interior design

A Woman's Touch: Women in Design from 1860 to the Present Day

Virago Press Ltd.

Contemporary account of the punk rock music movement.

Punk

Dike Blair

Urizen Books

The World of Interiors: A Decoration Book

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Min Hogg

Wendy Harrop

Crafts & Hobbies

Conran

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