FULLY REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION OF
DESIGN,
an excellent introduction to the work of two British designers Edward
Bawden (1903-1989) and Eric Ravilious (1903-1942). This fascinating book
illustrates every aspect of their creativity, featuring designs for
wallpaper, posters, book jackets, trade cards and Wedgwood ceramics, to
name but a few. DESIGN
opens with an informed and engaging essay by Peyton Skipwith, who, from
the late 1960s, acted as Edward Bawden's principal dealer.
Bawden and Ravilious both attended the
Design School of the Royal College of Art. It was here that they met and
started to experiment with print-making - marking the beginning of an
extremely creative but tragically short-lived friendship. Ravilious was
killed at the age of thirty-nine in an air-sea rescue mission during the
Second World War; Edward Bawden survived him by forty-six years.
Brian Webb is a designer and visiting
Professor at the University of the Arts London. He has lectured,
designed and produced several books on the works of Eric Ravilious and
Edward Bawden including For
Shop Use Only,
Submarine Dream
and DESIGN,
Edward Bawden and Eric
Ravilious a centenary
exhibition curated by Brian Webb.
Peyton Skipwith is Edward Bawden's
Literary Executor. He is an independent art consultant, having recently
retired as a director of The Fine Art Society after forty-four years,
during which time he organised many exhibitions covering most aspects of
British fine and decorative arts of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, including Tribute to Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilious in Context, and Britain Between
the Wars. He is a writer and
critic, contributing regularly to various publications including,
Apollo, The Burlington and The Literary Review, as well as being a
Trustee of the North West Essex Art Collection and Honorary Curator of
the Art Workers Guild.
