[Morris, William] Hollamby, Edward / Webb, Philip.

Red House – Bexleyheath 1859.

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991. 29.7 cm x 29.8 cm. 57 pages (unpaginated). With many colour and black and white illustrations and photographs. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor signs of discolouration to page edges. Otherwise bright and clean. (Architecture in Detail, No. 03).

Includes for example the following contents: The genesis of Red House / Morris takes up architecture and meets Philip Webb / Designing and building Red House / House and garden conceived as one / Furnishing and decorating Red House / The end of the dream / Red House today / The entrance boldly marked / Function and relationship expressed in fenestration / The ground floor volumes / Ruskin and Pugin / The historical significance of Red House / Webb’s search for a ‘free’ style / The appeal of Red House today / Chronology etc.

Red House, designed for William Morris by his architectural friend Philip Webb in 1858, is famous throughout the world as a seminal Arts and Crafts building. The German scholar Muthesius described it, in 1904, as ‘the first private house of the new artistic culture, the first example in the history of the modern house’; and it subsequently entered most of the written histories of ‘modern architecture’.

Following an illustrated essay which tells the history of the building and describes in detail what it is like today, the book contains large reproductions of Philip Webb’s original drawings, a comprehensive set of current measured drawings of the house, and a portfolio of 24 outsize photographs conveying with great verisimilitude what is actually like to walk around, and through, the Red House. (From jacket notes)

Edward Ernest Hollamby OBE (1921–1999) was an English architect, town planner, and architectural conservationist. Known for designing a number of modernist housing estates in London, he had also achieved notability for his work in restoring the Red House, the Arts and Crafts building in Bexleyheath, Southeast London, which was designed by William Morris and Philip Webb in the year 1859. In 1952, Hollamby and his family moved into the Red House, undertaking projects to renovate and restore it. A great admirer of the house’s original inhabitant, William Morris, he also involved himself in the early activities of the William Morris Society, which held a number of meetings at the property. Awarded an OBE for his career in 1970. He continued restoring Red House in his later life, opening it up to visitors and establishing the Friends of Red House non-profit organization in 1998.

Philip Speakman Webb (1831– 1915) was an English architect sometimes called the Father of Arts and Crafts Architecture. His use of vernacular architecture demonstrated his commitment to “the art of common building.” Webb met William Morris in 1856 and then started his own practice in 1858. He is particularly noted as the designer of Red House at Bexleyheath, southeast London in 1859 for William Morris, and – towards the end of his career – the house Standen (near East Grinstead in West Sussex). These were among several works in his favoured niche: country houses. A Greater London Council blue plaque commemorates Webb and Morris at the Red House.(Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Architect · Architectural Art · Architectural Drawing · Architecture · Architecture – Rare · Catalogue Twentyfive – Architecture · English Architecture · Photographs · William Morris
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854547046
• Inventory Number: 200339AB

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