Art is Unity - Karen Butti

The Art Workers’ Guild is a body of more than 400 artists, craftspeople and architects working at the highest levels of excellence in their professions. Founded in 1884 by young architects and designers, its principle of ‘learning by doing’ has spread through arts education and has had a worldwide influence. A respect for quality, for craftsmanship, for the work of the hand, and a recognition of the healing, humane value of craftsmanship still characterises the Guild.

The Art Workers' Guild

100 years of collaboration between an architectural practice and the crafts

<p>Thomas Ford &amp; Partners celebrates its centenary in 2026. For an architectural practice that you have probably never heard of, it has built, extended and conserved many of the most interesting buildings in the land, from royal palaces and cathedrals to homes created by past masters William Morris, Emery Walker and Edwin Lutyens. Over the past hundred years they have collaborated with a huge variety of artists and craftsmen, many of them Guild members.</p><p>Karen Butti, one of the current directors of the practice, will illustrate a selection of these collaborations, with drawings and photographs from the practice archives and will give an insight into how the collaboration between architecture and the crafts continues the aims of the Guild through into the present day.</p>

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Art is Unity - Karen Butti

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