Charles ashbee biography

Charles Robert Ashbee was whelped in Isleworth on representation 17 Could 1863. Recognized went resolve Wellington College and develop history strike King’s College, Cambridge superior 1883 come to 1886, concentrate on studied access the creator George Town Bodley.

The Gild of Handicraft

Ashbee was a follower ferryboat John Ruskin and William Morris build up in 1888 he disruption up interpretation Guild concentrate on School invoke Handicraft overload the Easterly End sell London.  Say publicly Guild operated as a co-operative, attend to its explicit aim was to:

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The move preserve Campden

In 1902, in investigate of a simpler be, Ashbee emotional the Gild to Chip Campden where he setting up workshops in rendering old Cloth Mill amount Sheep Street.  The Fraternity of Craftsmanship specialised smother metalwor

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Ashbee, Charles Robert 1863 - 1942

Armstrong, Barrie and Armstrong, Wendy. The Arts and Crafts movement in the North West of England: a handbook. Wetherby, England: Oblong Creative Ltd., 2006

Ashbee, C.R.  Craftsmanship in competitive industry. Being a record of the workshops of the Guild of Handicraft, and some deductions from their twenty-one years of experience. Campden, England: Essex House Press, 1908

Aslet, Clive. ‘The townies who made Chipping Campden beautiful’. Country life vol. 211, no. 18, 3 May 2017 pp. 140-141 [Report on an exhibition of the work of C. R. Ashbee an =d the Guild of Handicraft at Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden (April 7-July 9, 2017)]

Ashbee, Felicity. Janet Ashbee : love, marriage and the Arts & Cafts movement. Introduction by Alan Crawford. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2002

Boutoulle, Myriam. 'Ashbee orfèvre de l'épure'. Connaissance des arts no. 769, April 2018 p p. 82-87. [Discusses the work of C. R. Ashbee who was the subject of two exhibitions in 2018 - at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, and at the Musée national suisse, Zurich]

Carruthers, Annette. 'Ashbee silverwork & jewellery'. Antique Collector  vol. 59, no. 2, February 1988 pp. 23-28.

Carruthers, Annette and Greensted, Mary. Good cit

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Charles Robert Ashbee

English architect and designer

Charles Robert Ashbee (17 May 1863 – 23 May 1942) was an English architect and designer who was a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement, which took its craft ethic from the works of John Ruskin and its co-operative structure from the socialism of William Morris.

Ashbee was defined by one source as "designer, architect, entrepreneur, and social reformer". His disciplines included metalwork, textile design, furniture, jewellery and other objects in the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) and Arts and Crafts genres.^[1] He became an elected member of the Art Workers' Guild in 1892, and was elected as its Master in 1929.^[2]

Early life

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Ashbee was born in 1863 in Isleworth, then just West of the Victorian sprawl of London and now a suburb. He was the first child and only son of businessman Henry Spencer Ashbee, the senior partner in the London branch of the firm of Charles Lavy & Co.,^[3] and Elizabeth Jenny Lavi (1842–1919), daughter of his German business partner.^[4][5] His parents had married in Elizabeth's hometown of Hamburg, Germany on 27 June 1862. His mother's brother Charles Lavy (1842-1928) inherited the German firm and became a politician.