Contextual Influences

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A.w.n pugin (Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic, chiefly remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style.

Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most prolific and influential children’s book creator of his generation ,one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts

Philip Webb was an English architect — sometimes called the 'Father of Arts and Crafts Architecture. He is particularly noted as the designer of Red House at Bexleyheath, southeast London in 1859 for William Morris

A.h. mackmurdo (Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo ) was a progressive English architect and designer, who influenced the Arts and Crafts Movement, notably through the Century Guild of Artists, which he set up in partnership with Selwyn Image in 1882.


Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-leDuc was a French architect and theorist, famous for his interpretive "restorations" of medieval buildings. He was a major Gothic Revival architect. He was the architect hired to design the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design.

Carlo Bugatti was a notable decorator, architect, designer and manufacturer of Art Nouveau furniture, models of jewellery, musical instruments.


Siegfried Bing often referenced William Morris was an English textile erroneously as "Samuel Bing", was a designer, artist, writer, and utopian German art dealer who lived in Paris socialist associated with the Preas an adult, and who helped Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Japanese art and introduce English Arts and Crafts Movement. artworks to the West and was a He founded a design firm in factor in the development of the Art partnership ,which profoundly Nouveau style during the late influenced the decoration of nineteenth century. churches and houses into the early 20th century. Josef Hoffmann was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods.


Marcel Lajos Breuer was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms.

Le Corbusier was an architect, designer,urbanist a nd writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India and America.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Mies, like many of his post-World War I contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential twentieth century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity.

Josef Albers was a Germanborn American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century


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