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Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

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In 1884, the guild showed a display in the form of a music room at the Health Exhibition in London; the stand was shown, with variations, at subsequent exhibitions in Manchester and Liverpool. It incorporated two of Mackmurdo's favourite motifs. One was foliage twisted into sinuous curves.
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The second motif was the use of thin square columns, topped with flat squares instead of capitals. These columns influenced the furniture designs of
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Mackmurdo made a major donation to the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, which is an important repository of the work of the Century Guild.
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In 1874 he opened his own architectural practice at 28 Southampton Street, in central London.
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In 1882, Mackmurdo founded the Century Guild of Artists with his friend and fellow architect
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Chair designed by Mackmurdo, the back panel of which has been seen as a precursor of
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described Mackmurdo's use of such foliage on the title page of the designer's own
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Mackmurdo was the son of a wealthy chemical manufacturer. He was educated at
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Utopian Craftsmen: The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswold to Chicago
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A.H. Mackmurdo, an Overview ("Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo" throughout)
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incunabula
Art Nouveau
English
Arts and Crafts Movement
Century Guild of Artists
Herbert Horne
Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style)
Art Nouveau
Felsted School
James Brooks
John Ruskin
Italy
Florence
Italian architecture
Renaissance

Art Nouveau
Herbert Percy Horne
Selwyn Image
William De Morgan
Heywood Sumner
Christopher Whall
William Kellock Brown
Benjamin Creswick
metalworking
cabinet making
Nikolaus Pevsner
Wren
Rossetti

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