- Carol Duvall
Carol Duvall is host of the long running The Carol Duvall Show on the HGTV network. The show is devoted to demonstrating and teaching a wide variety of crafts from very basic "cut and glue" projects to intricate polymer clay creations. Carol's program was one of the original offerings on the newly founded Home & Garden Television network in 1994, and it has remained one of the lifestyle network's most popular shows throughout its 12-year run.
- Red House
Red House in Bexleyheath in the southern suburbs of London, England is a key building in the history of the Arts and Crafts movement and of 19th century British architecture. It was designed in 1859 by its owner, William Morris, and the architect Philip Webb, with wall paintings and stained glass by Edward Burne-Jones. Morris wanted a home for himself and his new wife, Jane.
- Christopher Dresser
Christopher Dresser was a designer and writer on design, now widely known as Britain’s first independent industrial designer and as a contributor to the Anglo-Japanese and Arts and Crafts movements in Britain. Dresser was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
- Philip Webb
Philip Speakman Webb (12 January, 1831 - 17 April 1915) was an English architect - sometimes called the 'Father of Arts and Crafts Architecture'. Born in Oxford, Webb studied at Aynho in Northamptonshire and was then articled to firms of builder-architects in Wolverhampton and Reading, Berkshire. He then moved to London where he eventually became a junior assistant for G. E. Street. While there he met William Morris in 1856 and then started his own practice in 1858.
- Ernest Gimson
Ernest William Gimson (Leicester, Dec 21, 1864 - Sapperton, August 12, 1919) was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers". Today his reputation is securely established as one of the most influential designers of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- David Green
David Green is the founder of Hobby Lobby, an American chain of arts and crafts stores. His story is chronicled in the book, "More Than a Hobby: How a $600 Startup Became America's Home and Craft Superstore," (ISBN 978-0785208310), co-authored with Dean Merrill.
- John Pearson
John Pearson was a famous master craftsman of the Newlyn School and Guild of Handicrafts. His style is described as arts and crafts / art nouveau. Together with Charles Robert Ashbee, was a founding member of the Guild of Handicraft at Whitechapel, London. John Pearson was dismissed from the Guild of Handicraft in 1892 and made his way to Newlyn, Cornwall Pearson was greatly influenced by William De Morgan (1839-1917), …
- Donna Kato
Donna Kato is one of the best known polymer clay artists, author, teacher and product developer who has worked with polymer clay for many years. Her book, "The Art Of Polymer Clay" (Watson-Guptill) published in 1997, continues to be one of the most popular and respected texts on polymer clay.
- T. J. Cobden Sanderson
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson was an English artist and bookbinder associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He was born in Alnwick, Northumberland, as Thomas James Sanderson. Sanderson attended many schools including the Royal Grammar School Worcester before entering Owen's College (Manchester University) and then Trinity, Cambridge to study law. He left without taking a degree, and entered Lincoln's Inn as a barrister.
- Tom Scott
Tom Scott RSA (1854-1927) was a painter, primarily a watercolourist born in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. Known as the 'Borders Painter', his historical paintings reflect his lifelong interest in the archaeology and history of the area. His highly accomplished work is mainly depictions of the landscapes of Southern Scotland, and illustrative tableaux derived from local Legend and story. Drawing from both the Arts and Crafts movement and the work of the Romantic School, …
- Harold Peto
Harold Ainsworth Peto (1854-1933) was an English architect and garden designer. He was the son of Sir Samuel Morton Peto of Somerleyton Hall. In 1876 he went into partnership with Ernest George and designed houses in Kensington and Chelsea but was forced to leave London due to ill health. In 1899 Harold moved to Iford Manor in Wiltshire, where he re-designed and expanded the garden, trying out new ideas, …
- Robert Lorimer
Sir Robert Stodart Lorimer (1864 - 1929) was a prolific Scottish architect noted for his restoration work on historic houses and castles, and for promotion of the Arts and Crafts style.
- William Lethaby
William Richard Lethaby (January 18, 1857 - July 17, 1931) was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of conservation and art education.
- Gustave Serrurier-Bovy
Gustave Serrurier-Bovy was a Belgian architect and furniture designer. Along with Paul Hankar, Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde, he is one of the principal architects in Belgium to work in the Art Nouveau style. In 1884, he visited England, where he became interested in the Arts and Crafts movement. Returning to Belgium, he brought with the movement's ideas and some of his own productions inspired by the British artists, which he sold at his store in Liège.
- George Devey
George Devey was a British architect, born in London, the second son of Frederick and Ann Devey. Devey was educated in London, after leaving school he initially studied art, with an ambition to become a professional artist. He later trained as an architect. During his professional career Devy had a London office in Great Marlborough Street, where he specialised in domestic architecture, lodges, cottages and country mansions.
- Joseph Southall
Joseph Edward Southall was an English painter associated with the Arts and crafts movement. He was a member of the Birmingham Group school, one of the last outposts of Romanticism in the visual arts, and an important link between the last embers of the Pre-Raphaelites and the new Slade Symbolists. He lived and worked in Birmingham, England, and was long associated with the Municipal School of Art at Margaret Street, Birmingham, which is now BIAD.
- Detmar Blow
Detmar Jellings Blow (1867 - 1939) was a British architect of the early 20th century, who designed principally in the arts and crafts style. His clients belonged chiefly to the British aristocracy, and later he became estates manager to the Duke of Westminster.
- Barbara McGuire
Barbara McGuire is a nationally acknowledged artist whose diverse talents include works in polymer clay, painting and jewelry design. She has written nine books on design and instruction including polymer clay, wire, beads and children's art. Barbara has appeared as a regular guest of the popular Carol Duvall show and has developed stamps, templates and molds for polymer clay. She lives in Suwanee, Georgia and recently opened Altered Art Source on Main Street in Buford, GA, …
- Fletcher Steele
Fletcher Steele (June 7, 1885 - July 1971) was an American landscape architect credited with designing and creating over 700 gardens from 1915 to the time of his death. Steele was born John Fletcher Steele in Rochester, New York, United States to a lawyer father and pianist mother, graduated from Williams College in 1907, and promptly joined the young landscape architecture program at Harvard University where Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
- Herbert Tudor Buckland
Herbert Tudor Buckland (November 20, 1869 - 1951) was a British architect, best known for his seminal Arts and Crafts houses (several of which, including his own at Edgbaston, Birmingham are Grade I listed), the Elan Valley Reservoirs' model village, educational buildings such as the campus of the Royal Hospital School in Suffolk and St Hugh's College Oxford. Buckland was born in Barmouth, Wales and educated at King Edward's School, …
- Arthur Frank Mathews
Arthur Frank Mathews (1860-1945) was an American Tonalist painter who was one of the founders of the American Arts and Crafts movement. Trained as an architect as well as an artist, he had a significant effect on the evolution of Californian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His students include Granville Redmond, Xavier Martinez, Armin Hansen, Percy Gray, Gottardo Piazzoni, Maynard Dixon and Francis McComas.
- Susie Ghahremani
Susie Ghahremani (born May 31, 1980 in Evanston, Illinois) is a painter and performs as an indie pop musician under the moniker Snoozer. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 with a BFA in Illustration. In 2000, she launched a line of arts and crafts under company name boygirlparty.
- Henrietta Barnett
Dame Henrietta Barnett, DBE was a notable English social reformer and author. She and her husband, Samuel Augustus Barnett, founded the first 'University Settlement' at Toynbee Hall (in east London) in 1884. Born Henrietta Octavia Rowland, she worked with Octavia Hill who was instrumental in introducing her to the curate of St Mary's, Bryanston Square, London.
- Guy Dawber
Sir Edward Guy Dawber (King's Lynn, 1861 - London, 1938) was an English architect working in the late Arts and Crafts style whose work is particularly associated with the Cotswolds. He trained in the practice of Sir Ernest George and Harold Peto, supervising their work on Batsford Park (1887-93), near Moreton-in-Marsh, in the Cotswolds. He became a respected and scholarly architect working in the Cotswold vernacular tradition, …
- Robert Dancik
Robert Dancik is a maker of jewelry, sculpture and many objects that bridge the two fields. He exhibits this work in museums and galleries in throughout the US, England, France, Japan and Iceland. His work can be found in collections including Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine WI; Mitsubishi International, Tokyo Japan; Gallery of Art and Design, North Carolina State University; Collection Cousteau, Nice, France.
- Esther Howland
Esther Howland (1828 - 1904) was an artist and businesswoman who is responsible for popularizing Valentine's Day greeting cards. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1847 at the age of 19. Howland received an ornate English Valentine from a business associate of her father and began to create and market her own brand of "Valentine's Day" greeting cards. She employed friends and developed a thriving business which she eventually sold in 1881.
- Tonia Todman
Tonia Todman (born 19??) is an Australian television personality, who has appeared on Good Morning Australia, and also appeared on Rove Live. She is known for making craftwork, a kind of Australian version of American Martha Stewart. She is best known for her craft segments on classic Australian lifestyle show Healthy, Wealthy and Wise in the early to mid '90s. Todman was briefly married to Melbourne lawyer David Stagg, …
- Thomas Garner
Thomas Garner was one of the leading English Gothic revival church architects of the Victorian era. His name is usually mentioned in relation to his almost 30-year partnership with George Frederick Bodley. Garner never received full recognition for his remarkable abilities, scholarly knowledge and extraordinary achievements in designing and constructing ecclesiastical, private and public buildings. This is attributable, according to Edward Prioleau Warren, …
- Jeremy Broun
Jeremy Broun is a British woodworker, furniture designer maker, speaker, and writer. Broun's furniture is innovative in the use of technique and form. His Caterpillar Rocking chair in 1984 'is visually stunning, a good combination of colour, structure and practicality... and has the advantage of being a truly original idea : just as Saarinen and his pedestal chairs converted four chairlegs into one' ("An Encyclopedia of Chairs" - The Apple Press).
- Theophilus Presbyter
Theophilus Presbyter was a Benedictine monk and author of a Latin text containing detailed descriptions of various medieval applied arts. The collection of his writings is designated "Schedula diversarum artium" ("List of various arts") or "De diversibus artibus" ("On various arts") and was written between 1100 and 1120. The oldest handwritten copies of the work are found in Vienna (Austrian National Library, …
- Philippe Phebus Dubois
Philippe Phébus Dubois started painting at the age of 30. During several years he studied the art of painting and drawing. Between 1989 en 1990 he spent a lot of time in Amsterdam, studying the work of Vincent Van Gogh. In the nineties his work evolved to more abstract art. In December 1998 he exposed his abstract work for the first time in the museum of Tubize (Belgium). Phébus currently lives and works in Brussels. (Brigitte Descartes, Doctor of Philosophy/History of Art.)
- Christopher Tunnard
Christopher Tunnard (1910, Victoria, British Columbia - 1979) was an Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer and author of "Gardens in the Modern Landscape" (1938). He was the cousin of the British surrealist artist John Tunnard (1900-1971).
- Robert Reamer
Robert Reamer (1873-1938) was a western American architect, most famous for the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. This work was commissioned in 1902 by Harry W. Child 1st, and funded with loans from the Northern Pacific Railroad. The 40 laborers who started the project were experienced railroad trestle builders. The Old Faithful Inn is a National Historic Landmark, …
- Kim Klassen
Kim Klassen (born April 30, 1968 in Rivers, Manitoba) is a well-known American folk art painter. She started doing craft classes in local areas and then started painting things. She has exploded onto the scene with her unique style of painting.
- William S. Hebbard
William Sterling Hebbard (1863-1930) was born in Milford, Michigan and was an 1887 Graduate of Cornell University. He is noted for his work as an architect in California, mostly San Diego county. He briefly worked as a draftsman and assistant for the Burnham and Root firm in Chicago and in 1888 for Curlett, Eisen and Cuthbertson in Los Angeles. By 1890 he was in private practice in San Diego. In 1891 he became associated with the Reid Brothers firm, …
- Stanley Webb Davies
Stanley Webb Davies (1894 - 1978) was one of Great Britain's premier makers of Arts and crafts furniture. Based in Windermere in the Lake District his work was from the same generation of furniture makers as Robert (Mousey) Thompson (aka The Mouse Man). Stanley was born in Darwen, Lancashire, the son of a textile mill owner, and moved to Windermere in the Lake District to set up his workshop. Like all of the artisans in the Arts and Crafts movement, …
- John Luther Long
John Luther Long (1861-1927) was an American lawyer and writer best known for his short story "Madame Butterfly" based on the recollections of his sister, Irvin Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband, a Methodist missionary. The story of the relationship between an American naval officer and a Nagasaki geisha was published in Century Magazine in 1898.
- Alfred Hoare Powell
Alfred Hoare Powell was an English Arts and Crafts architect, and designer and painter of pottery. Alfred Powell was a pupil of John Dando Sedding, working in the 'crafted Gothic' tradition inspired by John Ruskin. His wife, Louise Powell, née Lessore, was the daughter of an artist, and studied embroidery, calligraphy and illuminating. Together Alfred and Louise Powell became celebrated as pottery designers for Wedgwoods.
- Bertha Crawford Hubbard
Bertha Crawford Hubbard(1861-1935)(nee Bertha Crawford) was one of the founders of the Roycroft movement, an American branch of the Arts and Crafts movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was married to Elbert Hubbard the charismatic leader of the Roycrofters in 1881- when he was a soap salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Their marriage produced four children, but ended in divorce because of her husband's infidelity with Alice Moore, …
- Charles Bateman
Charles Edward Bateman FRIBA (June 8, 1863 - August 5, 1947) was an English architect, known for his Arts and Crafts and Queen Anne-style houses and commercial buildings in the Birmingham area and for his sensitive vernacular restoration and extension work in the Cotswolds.