“Never look at an ugly thing twice. It is fatally easy to get accustomed to corrupting influences.” - C.F.A. Voysey
C.F.A. Voysey (Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, 1857–1941) was a prominent British architect, designer, and one of the founders of the English Arts and Crafts movement. Voysey designed not only buildings but also their interiors, furniture, wallpaper, textiles, and decorative items. He was a rare designer, similar in some respects to Frank Lloyd Wright, in that he found the art of creating a building to be a holistic act, not just focusing on one part, but always trying to see the whole.
His work was characterized by simplicity, and often included stylized forms of animals, birds and flowers.
Trees & Swallows was inspired by a design originally intended to be used for a woolen textile. A watercolor drawing of the design is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.
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