Great Houses of the Arts & Crafts Movement, David Cole Talk and Launch

Wednesday 2 September 2026, 6.30-8.00pm

Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

Joint event with the Voysey Society

Talk:   Unique Design Insights – 14 Great Arts & Crafts Houses by CFA Voysey and Edwin Lutyens

We are delighted to invite members to a talk by David Cole, a leading authority on Britain’s Arts & Crafts Movement, giving us his analysis of some of the outstanding houses in this style by our societies’ great architects, accompanying the launch of his major new monograph.

While the book features the great houses of some forty of the movement’s most renowned architects over some 624 pages and 900 colour illustrations, David will ensure we leave better informed about Lutyens and Voysey’s work and in no doubt of Lutyens’ lead in this field.

As a recently retired architect who lives in Melbourne, Australia, we are fortunate to have David in the UK and to be hosting this launch. Throughout his career as a design director with a major Australian-based international architectural practice, he specialised in the design of large-scale urban residential, hospitality, commercial, and civic projects.    He is the author of two previous books on Arts and Crafts subjects:  The Art and Architecture of C.F.A.Voysey, published in 2015, and the best-selling architectural biography Sir Edwin Lutyens: The Arts and Crafts Houses, published in 2017.

Great Houses   will be available to buy at a reduced rate at the event.  The evening will be accompanied by light refreshments.  The dress code is smart casual.

We are immensely grateful to Ian Adam-Smith Architects for sponsoring the event.