Art is Unity - Karen Butti

100 years of collaboration between an architectural practice and the crafts

Thomas Ford & 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.

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.