Charles Robert Ashbee
Charles Robert Ashbee was born May 17th 1863 with Isle Worth and died the May 23rd 1942 with Godden Green (Kent).
It is the son of a prosperous merchant. He studied with the Wellington College and the King' S College, with Cambridge where he was subject to the influence of Edward Carpenter. Become architect, he was founding member of the movement Arts and Crafts which he then developed while creating, in 1888, the Guild and School off Handicraft in which the ideas of the movement were put into practice, with a specialization in furnishing. That was the case of the pieces of furniture for Baillie Scott and the Palais of Darmstadt of the large duke of Hesse.
Ashbee met Frank Lloyd Wright at the time of its visit of the the United States in 1896. He admired also architecture Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene.
He was also the author of a test Should We Stop Teaching Art? , pointing the change of nature of industrial patronage. It created a community from 150 to 200 workman-craftsmen, brought together by small co-operatives, with the idea of equality (in the wages, for example).
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