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BEYOND BLOOMSBURY: DESIGNS OF THE OMEGA WORKSHOPS 1913-19
Alexandra Gerstein (editor)
The Courtauld Gallery, 2009
Hardcover
183 pages
Extensively illustrated in colour and black & white.
ISBN: 9781906257057
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With the opening of the Omega Workshops in 1913 as a 'laboratory' of radical design ideas, Roger Fry signalled a break with mainstream Edwardian culture and aesthetics. Inspired by contemporary art in Europe, the Workshops created a range of objects for the home, from rugs and linens to ceramics, furniture and clothing - all boldly coloured and patterned with dynamic abstract designs.
For a brief five years, 33 Fitzroy Square was the place to buy a 'Fauve' shawl, a 'Post-Impressionist' chair or a Cubists-inspired rug from a collective of artists that included Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Frederick Etchells, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Winnifred Gill. With clients like Virginia Woolf, E M Forster, George Bernard Shaw and Lady Ottoline Morrell, the Workshops have a colourful and intriguing story to tell.
This book includes wide ranging essays by specialists and scholars on the period, alongside photographs, illustrations and examples of the artists, designs and objects.
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