Woodworker's Journal 2006-30-5, страница 10

International Arts & Crafts Show

Clock (above), by Charles Francis Annesley Voysey circa 1895-1896, and the American Room (left), one of four recreated rooms featured at the de Young Museum exhibit.

(Photos by Christine Smith ©Victoria & Albert Museum/V&A Images.)

International Arts & Crafts: William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright, was presented by San Francisco's de Young Museum, March 18 through June 18, 2006. The major exhibition drew on the Arts & Crafts tradition not only in England but

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from Austria, Russia, Scandinavia, the United States and Japan. More than 300 works were on display, about a third coming from London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the balance from other museums and private collections, much of which exhibited for the first time. The objects on display included textiles, stained glass, furniture, ceramics, metal-work, jewelry, books, architecture, photography, paintings and sculpture.

It was interesting to see this theme so well displayed with all its national variations. If I were asked

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Desk, by Charles Francis

"Manxman" Piano, Annesley Voysey,

by M.H. Baillie Scott, circa 1896.

circa 1902 -1903.