The Lutyens Trust 2010 desk calendar

Enjoy the genius of Sir Edwin Lutyens and raise money for The Lutyens Trust by buying one of their desk calendars. - sorry, now SOLD OUT

The calendars, which are printed on high quality paper, feature photographs from the Lutyens Trust Photographic Archive.

Details and more pictures are here.

The project will cost on the region of £34M of which nearly three-quarters has been found; the Whiteley Village Appeal is still looking for about £6M to finish off the project.

Read more about the ACMS visit to Whiteley Village and the restoration project.

It will be followed by a presentation by Society member Robin Stannard on the Philips Memorial Cloister with Rob Anderton of Waverly BC. Society member Sarah Sullivan will also present a short illustrated presentation on the ACMS Recording Project.

Hindhead Together is leading on an appeal to save Undershaw, the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, from residential development. The striking redbrick house, which Conan Doyle commissioned and lived in at the height of his career, sits in 3 acres of land in Hindhead, high in the Surrey Hills, looking down the Nutcombe Valley and onto the South Downs.

Find more details on the Hindhead Together website or in the newsletter (pdf 1.3Mb)

Colin Pill who undertook a research project on Newlyn Copper, mentioned here in 2007, has produced a book on the subject, co-authored with Daryl Bennett.

Colin has also recently launched a web site on the arts and crafts metalwork associated with the Home Arts and Industries Association: www.artsandcraftsmetalwork.co.uk

For more information and an on-line booking form see Bath (GULP)
 

The Society has received the sad news of the unexpected death of John George chairman of the arts and crafts movement in surrey since it was founded in 1996.  he led the society with imagination and enthusiasm and will be greatly missed.  a service is to be held next week in guildford, surrey.

"A joyful celebration of the life of John Francis George";
on Wednesday 9 July at 2pm
at Holy Trinity Church High Street, Guildford (at the upper end of the High Street, opposite the almshouses)

No flowers, donations to your own choice of charity/organisation

To celebrate the centenary of the Caroe family at Vann, Hambledon, there will be a programme of lectures and a tour of the house and gardens on Wednesday 30th July 2008. A flyer for the event may be downloaded in PDF format.

In a programme to be broadcast on Thursday 10 July at 8pm, the Channel Five series The Property List will be looking at the best places to find period homes in the UK, and Godalming will be featured as the best place to find Arts and Crafts properties.

Appeal and exhibition - A £75,000 restoration project has been launched to restore the murals by Anna Lea Merritt in St Martin’s Church, Blackheath designed by architect Charles Harrison Townsend. Members of ACMS are invited to attend a reception and presentation about the murals by Art Historian Olive Maggs  in the Village Hall, Blackheath, Surrey on 18 June. Also an exhibition in the Church The Story of the Patron, the Architect and the Artist

Touring Exhibition - Ancient Landscapes Pastoral Visions: Samuel Palmer to the Ruralists with study day and talks by art historian and exhibition curator Anne Anderson at all venues:

• Southampton City Art Gallery   18 April - 22 June
• Victoria Art Gallery, Bath   Part 1: 26 July - 7 September Romantic response to the British landscape
• Victoria Art Gallery, Bath   Part 2: 13 September -19 October Brotherhood of Ruralists
• Falmouth Art Gallery   20 September to 1 November

Appeal for help from The Brooking Collection Dry and secure storage, an equivalent space to 2-3 garages, is sought for two years to safeguard architectural components until they can be accommodated at Greenwich. If you can assist or have suggestions for possible locations, please contact Charles Brooking: 01483 274208

Exhibition 31 May - 5 July Watercolour Through the Ages: Works from the Borough Collection, including Helen Allingham, at Guildford House Gallery, Guildford 01483 444742

Exhibition until 13 December Makers & Movers at Crafts Study Centre, Farnham 01252 891450

It will be followed by a lecture by Robin Stannard on Thackeray Turner.

BBC Radio 4 starting Monday 24th March  15:45 to 16:00 Laurence Llewelyn Bowen's History of Home.

Episode 1, Mr Voysey: The Architect of Middle England was recorded at Norney Grange with Wendy Hitchmough and Russell Clapshaw discussing Voysey with Llewelyn Bowen.

The Artistic House Selling Exhibition, March 7th - 16th 2008, 10am - 4pm
Tel: 01373 467897 or email: Chris Vickers  for further information.

BBC Radio 4 starting Monday 12th November  09:45 to 10:00 Book of the Week - Augustus Pugin.

Rosemary Hill's biography of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of Britain's greatest architects, abridged in five parts by Doreen Estall and read by Haydn Gwynne.

Opening hours: daily from 10am – 4pm. Admission, £3 in aid of St John Ambulance. Prinknash Abbey is off the A46 near Painswick, Gloucestershire. Follow brown signs to Prinknash Abbey Park. Parking and refreshments are available.

Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland - Exhibition at Millennium Galleries Sheffield 25 October to 20 January 2008

Millais - Exhibition on the founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at Tate Britain from 26 September to 15 January 2008. Tel: 020 7887 8888 www.tate.org.uk 

It is planned to extend the galleries to show a few pictures of every visit (where possible) from now on.

In part to celebrate 150 years since Voysey's birthday on the 28th May 1857, and also as much of Chris' work is inspired by, and to the designs of CFA Voysey, he has re-launched his website featuring many designs and details by Voysey.

BBC 2 on Wednesday 30th May at 19:00 - Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again - Letchworth.

Heaven: Folkwoven in England.
Jonathan Meades tells the story of Letchworth, the first British garden city. A social experiment, its legacy is Britain's ubiquitous, banal sprawl. Yet it all started so charmingly with naked dew-bathers, vegetarian mystics and sandal-makers roaming through Hertfordshire clay fields.

A project is being established to study the history of Newlyn copper and to bring together pictures, documents and oral history of this important Arts and Crafts venture. The outcomes of the project would be to increase public access to and enjoyment of the history and cultural significance of Newlyn copper, promoting exhibitions, web based information and a publication to capture and illustrate the Newlyn story. Download the newsletter in PDF format (920Kb).

The selling exhibition has part emphasis on CFA Voysey and AW Simpson of Kendal, as coincidentally it is the 150th anniversary of both men's birth.

BBC 4 on Sunday 20th May at 20:00 - Edwin Lutyens Master Architect.

As part of their Edwardians season, the BBC are showing architecture critic Patrick Nuttgens' 1981 documentary on the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, exploring the plans and buildings of the man who designed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and the city of New Delhi.

The variety of exhibits, from stained glass windows, enamels, tapestries, domestic furniture and homewares, filmed interiors, architectural plans, illustrated books and garden furniture will provide audiences with many routes of interest and much to admire. For enthusiasts, the exhibition will offer the opportunity to view key items as well as works rarely seen in public.

Read an extended description of this event.

ACMS members Chris and Jenny Vickers are holding their annual selling exhibition this year from 9 to 18 March. Download more details and also see their website which shows their furniture and metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Style made to commission or from stock.

Augustus Pugin designed the Houses of Parliament. He designed cathedrals, churches and grand country houses. He created furniture, lighting and wallpaper. His mid-19th-century ideas about what ordinary houses should look like are hugely influential today.

The award will provide the foundation stone of the £10m Hope Appeal to save the Gallery. The Gallery has already reached over £1m of pledges and gifts, but still needs to continue fundraising. If you would like to make a donation online now to the Hope Appeal please go to www.justgiving.com/wattsgallery.

The Watts Gallery

VOTE Watts Gallery on Sunday 17 September

The Watts Gallery

There will also be a Restoration Roadshow at the gallery on Sunday 30 July 10am-6pm.

The Annual General Meeting for the Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey will be held on 24 May at the Tilford Institute. The meeting will be followed by an illustrated presentation "The Hope appeal and Watts Gallery past, present and future".

For more details, go to the Publications page.