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Article: Arts and crafts perspectives. (Arts and Crafts von Moris bis Mackintosh exhibition)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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The exhibition Arts and Crafts von Morris bis Mackintosh at the Institut Mathildenhohe in Darmstadt (until 17 April) offers an opportunity to examine the British movement in Continental perspective. Darmstadt is a particularly appropriate place for such a reconsideration, for the last Grand Duke of Hesse, Ernst Ludwig, was a great admirer of the English and in 1898, he asked Baillie Scott and C.R.Ashbee to design two rooms in his Neuer Palais. (The building was destroyed by British bombs in 1944, but some of the furniture remains and a few pieces are shown in the exhibition.)
At the same time, he started to encourage the German speaking countries to make a response ...