Designs

William Morris felt that items should be designed and made by the same person as the maker will know more about how they are made, and this will influence the design.

I design all my own clock cases, all based on Arts and Crafts principles. Please note that I am based in England, which historical has a different bias than say the US arts and crafts movement.

William Morris in 'The beauty of life' Lecture in 1880 (and no doubt at other times) said:

"Have nothing in your house which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful"

Whilst 'useful' and 'beautiful' are subjective matters, I hope that my clocks are useful and beautiful.

Emphasis

The emphasis is to follow the arts and crafts traditions of simplicity and honesty of design and construction (and that is why designer and maker are the same), using grain of wood etc. to enhance the product. One ideal of the Arts and Crafts movement was to reduce the clutter / ornateness which was found in the Victorian items, particularly European items.

William Morris / Pugin / John Ruskin also wished to see use of local traditions and local materials which I use, where practically possible, and which influences the designs.

Methods

Designs are made using a combination of water colour sketches and dip pen and ink scale drawings on draft-mans tracing paper.

Examples

Whilst this website is setup, if you wish to see examples, please do contact me to see if I have any designs at the current time. At a later point I will place example designs with sample prices on this website.

Terminology

Outside the UK the arts and crafts movement was sometimes represented by similar movements such as Mission and Craftsman in the US.



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Designed and made by myself, using combination of water colour sketches and dip pen and ink scale drawings on draft-mans tracing paper, read more....

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