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To want to buy arts-and-crafts style homeware?

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Bluelinen · 01/11/2020 17:15

Where for the love of god does one go to find homeware/decor inspired by the arts and crafts movement??? I know I could look for antiques on ebay but that requires some idea of knowing what I want to search for in the first place when what I really want is to be able to browse a website and be inspired.

We have just moved into an arts and crafts style house in a garden city which I've completely fallen hook, line and sinker for and I'm looking for suitably sympathetic homeware/furniture/decor items (pictures, soft furnishings, clocks, table lamps, dining table etc etc) without the foggiest idea of where to start looking. Need to find some new inspiration or our new home is at risk of looking like the William Morris section of a department store.

Has anyone else stumbled upon anywhere they would recommend?

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Thymeout · 01/11/2020 18:04

Liberty's? Arts and Crafts used to be their thing when they first opened.

SpeedofaSloth · 01/11/2020 18:07

I immediately thought of Woods Beryl Ware, it's 1940s but it's in the region of beautiful and useful, as far as I am concerned anyway. Lots on eBay.

hesterstanhope · 01/11/2020 18:23

Try searching on Instagram

instagram.com/paul_reeves_london?igshid=1ut0muoexdd8v

instagram.com/lochendantiques?igshid=14vk6hoahvw89

Or try searching Selling Antiques (use Arts and Crafts, Liberty, Shoolbred, Heals)

I know Tooveys Austions has a regular Arts and Crafts sale and you could try looking on The Saleroom or sold items on Bonhams and Christie’s.

There are lots of great books, buy one and list all the designers one a piece of paper and then search that way.

DaisyDreaming · 01/11/2020 18:24

Etsy!

JHaniver · 01/11/2020 18:26

As a previous poster said, check out the-saleroom.com. Many auction houses will have dedicated arts and crafts sections in their sales semi regularly.

jenthelibrarian · 01/11/2020 18:28

If not antiques, what about Ercol furniture for dining table?
Has the craft-made ethos and the solid wood. Lovely stick-back chairs.

OliveHenry · 02/11/2020 00:20

One thing to remember is that houses of that period would still have contained older furniture, so don't be afraid to put earlier pieces in there too.

They wouldn't have been full of all shiny new bits - would have been lots of hand-me-downs and inherited stuff.

Coffeeisnecessary · 02/11/2020 00:33

I'm sure national trust used to have a range. What you really need is that old shop past times, although I think that has gone now!

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