Simplicity or Splendour - Arts & Crafts Living Antiques

Simplicity or Splendor : Arts & Crafts Living, Objects from the Cheltenham Collection.

edited by Annette Carruthers and Mary Greensted

ISBN 0853317798

Lund Humphries Publishers, Limited / Barbican Art Gallery, London 1999.

First Edition. 4to - 26cm tall. Card Covers. Fine / No Jacket. 184 pp., illustrated throughout. This is the second publication on the collection of Arts and Crafts objects held at the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum.  It's a nationally important collection, and featurs designers such as Chales Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft , Phyllis Barron , Micheal Cardew , Walter Crane , Eric Gil , Ernest Gimson, Dorothy Larcher , William Morris , Marian Pepler , Alfred and Louise Powell , Gordon Russell , C. F. A. Voysey , Philip Webb , Henry Wilson . This volume covers the decorative arts relating to the person and to the domestic interior including ceramics , jewellery , textiles , costume , glass , leather , and plasterwork .