Coatts, Margot.

Pioneers of modern craft : twelve essays profiling key figures in the history of twentieth-century craft / Margot Coatts. - xvi, 143 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Studies in design and material culture . - Studies in design and material culture .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Margot Coatts -- C.R. Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft / Alan Crawford -- Edward Barnsley / Annette Carruthers -- Bernard Leach : rewriting a life / Oliver Watson -- Edward Johnston and earning a living / Colin Banks -- William Staite Murray / Malcolm Haslam -- Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher / Barley Roscoe -- David Pye / Peter Dormer -- Marianne Straub / Mary Schoeser -- Lucie Rie and her work with Hans Coper / Tony Birks -- Gerald Benney / Eric Turner -- David Kindersley and his workshop / Jeremy Theophilus -- Gerda Flöckinger : her modern jewellery / Tanya Harrod.

0719050596 (paperback) 0719050588


Decorative arts--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Designers--Great Britain--Biography.

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