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Voysey's Birds and Animals

Karen Livingstone

Description

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941) is, with William Morris, one of the most enduringly popular designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. A practising architect, Voysey also designed a broad range of applied arts objects, from furniture, ceramics and metalwork to wallpaper, carpets, tiles and fabrics. His pattern designs, created from the 1880s to the early 1930s, are among his best-known works today.

His wallpaper and textile designs are characterized by simple, stylized, rhythmic patterns that base their motifs on forms found in the natural world. Plants abound, but so too do birds and animals, represented as silhouettes or in soft pastel shades. This elegant volume offers a wealth of colourful designs by Voysey in which birds and animals are the principal motifs bringing together not only completed patterns but also working drawings in pencil and watercolour.