Blackwell -The Arts & Crafts House, Windemere, Cumbria
Designed by architect Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott in 1898.
Baillie Scott would select one motif, such as a flower, to symbolize a room and create a cohesive design. In Houses and Gardens he explained how the rowan tree was ‘specifically desired as the subject for decoration’ because it featured in the Holt family crest. The rowan tree appears in Blackwell’s stained glass windows, woodcarvings, plasterwork and wall coverings.
A quotation from Willian Morris:
” Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
The Beauty of Life – 1880
Arts and Crafts artists and supporters were passionate about keeping traditional handicrafts alive during the early days of mass production. They believed a world built by machines would lack soul.
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