Watercolour, Fleetwood C. Varley, 1901
Fleetwood C. Varley

Watercolour

1901 · Watercolour · 51 × 65.4 cm

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This watercolour is of the finished dining room in the house of architect and designer Charles Robert Ashbee in Chelsea, London. It was drawn by Ashbee's friend, Fleetwood C. Varley. This sketch was reproduced in the German journal, Kunst und Kunsthandverk, and was possibly drawn especially for that purpose.

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This house was designed and built by Ashbee for his family in 1893-1894. The Ancient Magpie and Stump was the name of an old inn which had stood on the same ground. The rooms in the house were the first evidence of Ashbee's talents as an interior designer. The sketch shows the remarkably austere dining room, with its narrow guild trestle table and ladder-back chairs. It was decorated only with a modelled plaster frieze, partly painted by Ashbee's daughter Agnes, and a side-board displaying blue and white porcelain. The house was demolished in 1968.

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Ashbee founded the Guild of Handicraft in 1888. It was a school and subsequently became a business based on Arts and Crafts principles. It practised woodwork, leatherwork, metalwork and jewellery-making. The guild supplied much of the decoration for this dining room including what were then revolutionary ultra-modern electric light fittings. In 1907 the business failed, mainly because it could not compete with ordinary commercial firms, especially Liberty's in London.

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E.1903-1990

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