C.F.A. Voysey
English architect and furniture and textile designer.
1857 CE to 1941 CE
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (May 28, 1857 – February 12, 1941) is an English architect and furniture and textile designer.
Voysey's early work is as a designer of wallpapers, fabrics and furnishings in a simple Arts and Crafts style, but he is renowned as the architect of several country houses.
He is one of the first people to understand and appreciate the significance of industrial design.
H eis considered one of the pioneers of Modern Architecture, a notion which he rejects
His English domestic architecture draws heavily on vernacular rather than academic tradition, influenced by the ideas of Herbert Tudor Buckland (1869–1951) and Augustus Pugin (1812–1852).
The Sanderson wallpaper factory (1901) in Chiswick, which he designs, is named Voysey House in his memory.
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Led by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thirty-six, the members are influenced by William Morris, Walter Crane, and Charles Voysey and also adopt the British aesthetic for their handcrafted products.
The fifty-seven-year-old Wagner, as adviser to the Transport Commission in Vienna, is occupied from 1894 to 1898 with the construction of the Stadtbahn, the city's metropolitan railway network.
He designs bridges and tunnels for this system, as well as the stations, with their complex of platforms, staircases, and ticket offices.
Many of these stations, like Wagner's so-called Majolica House of the same year, use elements of art nouveau (or Jugendstil).
In the Majolica House, Wagner's decorative exploitation of the architectural surface with flexible, S-shaped linear ornament associates the Majolica House with the Sezessionstil, as do its decorative iron balconies and colored ceramic floral designs (the latter designed by Wagner's student Alois Ludwig).
Its blocklike simplicity is relieved by the floral Art Nouveau decoration used on the metal cupola.
Educated in Dresden, Loos had spent the years 1893-97 in the United States and now practices in Vienna ta twenty-eight.
C. F. A. Voysey pioneers the English Vernacular style in domestic architecture.
In 1893 Voysey had obtained his first commission for a relatively expensive house, Perrycroft, at Colwall, near Malvern.
From then until 1910 Voysey will receive a steady stream of architectural commissions; most are simple, white country or suburban houses with low, spreading lines, for which he becomes famous.
He introduces some mannered, even eccentric, classical detailing into two fairly expensive houses in Surrey, designed in 1897: New Place, near Haslemere, and Norney, near Shackleford. but there is a return to simplicity at Broad Leys and Moorcrag, the lakeside houses near Windermere that he designs in 1898.