Thursday evening Dr A. Anderson lecture “William
Morris at Home.”
Friday
A morning visit to Little Holland House,
Carshalton, the home of Frank Dickinson (1874-1961),
artist, designer and craftsman. The interior features
paintings, furniture and craftwork made by Dickinson.
Inspired by John Ruskin and William Morris, he dreamt of
creating a house that would meet with their approval.
The result is a unique testament to the English Arts and
Crafts movement, designed, built and furnished by one
man. After lunch at Danson House (included) it's off to
Bexleyheath and to visit Red House, built for William
Morris and his bride, Jane Burden, in 1860. Morris’s idyll
was short lived as he sold the house in 1865. But his
famous early designs, Bird and Trellis, Pomegranate and
Daisy were inspired by the garden and it was creating the
house that inspired Morris to found his famous firm in
1861. The day will end with St Mary’s Church, Great
Warley, considered England’s finest Arts and Crafts
church.
Friday evening Lecture by Dr A. Anderson “The Arts and
Crafts Home.”
Saturday
A morning visit to Charleston Farmhouse,
Lewes, the home and meeting place of the artistic and
intellectual Bloomsbury Group, which numbered Vanessa
Bell, Duncan Grant and Virginia Woolf. This interior is
more art than craft, being painted by Bell and Grant. To
Standen and lunch (not included) at the home of the
Beale Family. Built by Philip Webb, the house retains its
original Morris & Co. interiors. Both houses evoke the
idyll of country living before the First World War.