{"product_id":"great-houses-of-the-arts-david-cole-9781923094093","title":"Great Houses of the Arts and Crafts Movement: One Hundred Masterworks 1860-1914","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis extensively researched and exquisitely produced large-volume book presents 100 great houses of the Arts and Crafts Movement, each house individually described with insightful detail and illustrated with stunning photography.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA beautifully illustrated and extensively researched collection of 100 of the most famous houses of Britain's Arts and Crafts Movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Arts and Crafts Movement, founded in the philosophies of John Ruskin and William Morris, produced some of the world's most enduring architectural masterpieces. Author and architect David Cole presents the 100 great Arts and Crafts houses, each individually described and analysed with insightful detail and floor plans, and illustrated with stunning photography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with Morris's own iconic Red House, the book traces the fifty-year span of the movement, with a short chapter dedicated to each of these extraordinary houses: from the works of the pioneer Arts and Crafts architects, to the great reformer architects of the next generation, to the craftsman architects who took their lives and their work to the countryside, to the movement's Scottish architects, and finally to the houses of the Garden Cities and suburbs built through the movement's last decade before the First World War. The book features the great houses 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, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Robert Lorimer, Parker and Unwin, and many others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Morris famously said, \"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1923094092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781923094093\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Images Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.13lbs","brand":"David Cole","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48114000527615,"sku":"9781923094093","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89de9222-ddc8-48b2-b31c-fa67102d9a4a.jpg?v=1769618481","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/great-houses-of-the-arts-david-cole-9781923094093","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}