The Omega Workshops

Black octavo with beige lining papers; black and orange pictorial jacket with white spine title; x, 310 pages: frontispiece (portrait), illustrations (some color); 24 cm. "The Omega Workshops recounts for the first time the full story of the Bloomsbury Group's venture into interior decoration and furniture design. Founded in 1913 by British painter and critic Roger Fry, partly from philanthropic conern for impecunious young artists and partly in despair at the taste of the British public, the Omega workshops were to bring together art and industry to create murals, furniture, pottery, textiles and clothing. [.] In rich detail drawn from letters, interviews, critical reviews and newspaper accounts, Collins presents the definitive history of this artistic experiment and its effect on British taste in the early decades of the twentieth century." --Jacket. Contents: Foreword / Quentin Bell. Boycotted by society: 1910 & 1911. A group is established: 1912. 'His hair flew. His eyes glowed': 1913. Salons and caf?s: 1914. Refugees, dresses and collages: 1915. The artist as decorator: 1916 & 1917. Debts and regrets: 1918 & 1919. The plates. Near fine in near fine jacket. …