Voysey's birds and animals
(Book)

Designs drawn from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Includes bibliographic references (pages 140-143).

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857-1941) is, with William Morris, one of the most popular designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement. A practicing architect, Voysey also designed a broad range of applied arts objects, from furniture, ceramics, and metalwork to wallpaper, carpets, tiles, and fabrics. His pattern designs, created from the 1880s to the early 1930s, are among his best-known works today. His wallpaper and textile designs are characterized by simple, stylized, rhythmic patterns that base their motifs on forms found in the natural world. Plants abound, but so too do birds and animals, represented as silhouettes or in soft pastel shades. This volume offers colorful designs by Voysey in which birds and animals are the principal motifs.