Welby: Spring Blossoms I

Brilliantly conceived floral and foliated designs by foremost English architect and designer of the early 19th century are depicted with unmatched delicacy and sophistication. The images are easily adaptable for use as stencil designs and patterns for wallpaper, carpets, stained glass, and tiles. Ideal for commercial artists, designers, and craftworkers. ...more

Best known for his neo-Gothic designs for the Houses of Parliament, Victorian artist/architect Pugin also produced a wealth of beautiful ecclesiastical motifs that hark back to their medieval roots. This selection of 59 color plates depicts hundreds of images based on medieval designs for crosses, altar cloths, and church vestments. ...more

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of the most influential architects and designers of the 19th century. He pioneered an appreciation of medieval art and architecture and established in his polemical writings and design manuals the principles upon which the 19th-century Gothic Revival was based. His ideas were adopted ...more

The importance of the leading British architect A. W. N. Pugin (1812-52) in the history of the Gothic Revival, the development of ecclesiology, the origins of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and in architectural theory is incontestable. His letters are vigorous, direct, often witty, and invaluable for architectural and religio-historical ...more

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) exercised a seminal influence on British architecture in the nineteenth century, though, as he himself acknowledged towards the end of his short life, it was probably more through his writing than through his buildings that he had 'revolushioned the Taste of England'. Pugin's important theoretical ...more

Much of the study of the nineteenth-century architect, Augustus Welby Pugin has focused on his architecture and design. Pugin himself believed that his strongest influence lay in his writing; he played an important role in the nineteenth century religious revival because of his views as a liturgical architect. This book ...more

By the early 19th century the Gothic Revival was well on the way to becoming the most important style in Britain and was influencing public taste all over the world. With its particular concerns for pattern, ornament, and anti-classical principles of design and structure, the style remained popular until the ...more