Join us for a tour with Anne Stutchbury who will discuss with us to Philip Webb’s Standen.
Built 1892-94, Standen is regarded as a fine and outstanding architectural example of a late- Victorian ‘Arts and Crafts’ country house. Now owned by the National Trust, it is often referred to as the last major work of the Arts and Crafts architect, Philip Webb (1831-1915). Widely acknowledged to be a significant property, it is a view which has mainly grown from architectural scholarship associated with the biography of Webb and his strong connections with William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Interpreting Standen through the achievement or biography of its architect or its association with Arts and Crafts protagonists has led to other important aspects of the property’s history being overshadowed. Whilst this virtual tour of the house highlights Webb’s Arts and Craft’s architecture, it will primarily argue that the social and historical context of Standen as a family home and site of lived experience are important factors which deserve equal attention.
Anne Stutchbury, PhD is an independent art and architectural historian who has formerly worked at Charleston Farmhouse and for the Crawley Museums Society. Her research interests include the lived experience and social and cultural perspectives of the Arts and Crafts and Aesthetic movements and women artists of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Her doctoral thesis was titled ‘At home’ in Standen: A study of the Beale family's lived experience of their late-nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts home, 1890-1914’and she is currently advising projects at Standen while preparing her research for a forthcoming publication titled Standen: An Arts and Crafts home.
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