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The Simple Life - C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds (Paperback, Main)
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The Simple Life - C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds (Paperback, Main)
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The Simple Life (1981) was Fiona MacCarthy's first book, written
while she was the Guardian's design correspondent (and before her
acclaimed lives of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Edward
Burne-Jones.) It tells of a venturesome effort to enact an
Edwardian Utopia in a small town in the Cotswolds. The leader of
this endeavour was progressive-minded architect Charles Robert
Ashbee, who in 1888 founded the Guild of Handicraft in Whitechapel,
specialising in metalworking, jewellery and furniture and informed
by the desire to improve society. In 1902 Ashbee and his East
London comrades removed the Guild to Chipping Campden in
Gloucestershire, hoping to construct a socialistic rural idyll.
MacCarthy explores the impact of the experiment on the lives of the
group and on the little town they occupied - tracing the Guild's
fortunes and misfortunes, hilarious and grave, and the many fellow
idealists and artists who were involved (among them William Morris,
Roger Fry, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb.)
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