Cfa voysey biography sample

These words, coined by Dr Duncan Simpson as the subtitle of his 1979 book, are the perfect description of Charles Francis Annesley Voysey. His work was unique, modest and memorable, and he was not simply an architect who produced wonderful houses but a designer of furniture, domestic fittings and ironmongery, of flamboyant wallpaper, fabrics and exquisite graphic items.

His buildings, principally some fifty substantial houses for individual clients, based on unspecified vernacular traditions, were distinctive, simple, and elegant.

Voysey’s work, and the philosophy behind it, was well publicised at the time by his own writings, including Individuality which he published in 1915, in The Studio magazine, and in Dekorative Kunst in Germany, which gave him an international reputation.

In today’s world he would undoubtedly have been branded a celebrity. His simplicity of design caused him to be labelled as a forerunner of the Modern Movement in architectu