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E. W. Godwin

E. W. Godwin

Reid, Aileen

Paperback

Series: Victorian Architects

ArchitectsBritish History

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 11, 2026

ISBN10: 1805969951
ISBN13: 9781805969952
Publisher: Historic England
Published: Sep 11 2026
Pages: 200
Language: English

The architect Edward William Godwin (1833-86) was described by Max Beerbohm as 'the greatest of the aesthetes'. This and Godwin's disdain for convention as the lover of Ellen Terry and friend of Oscar Wilde has helped to frame discussion of his buildings, furniture and decorative design. His early work as a Gothic Revivalist, the designer of Northampton Town Hall, is typically presented as an immature preamble to the striking simplicity of his 1870s studio-houses in Chelsea, including the White House for his friend Whistler. This book, the first to look at his ideas through the prism of his architecture, demonstrates rather the continuities throughout his career, that all his design work - buildings, journalism, furniture, textiles and theatre - is informed by a set of principles that although they evolved radically in their expression remained remarkably consistent throughout his life, and informed throughout by his reading of John Ruskin.. To illustrate it are many newly taken photographs by a leading architectural photographer, and drawings in the tradition of the Survey of London.

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