Against the Grain. The Sapperton group of craftsmen designers - ACE127.6

Photograph of drawing-room furniture made at Daneway. Daneway job book with costings of each piece made and names of customers; even the relatively low prices were too much for the poorer people Gimson hoped to work for. Interior of Rodmarten Manor, near Cirencester, designed and built by Edward Barnsley (1909-1926) for Claud and Margaret Biddulph. Their son, Anthony Biddulph, talking about the commission. Exterior and gardens. Exterior and interior and furnishings of village hall at Sapperton (1912); VOs talk about the uses to which the hall was put. Photograph of Ernest Gimson’s wife, Emily; Mrs Strange talks about her running Girl Guides and about music making. Multi-purpose settle with storage space under the seat and a back that transforms into a table-top. Quotation from Morris; commentary talks of Ernest Gimson’s ideas of "healthy employment for all", hoping to influence the future, though his dream of a self-supporting craft village did not materialise. Women’s VOs talking about uses of village hall. Sapperton village; woman’s VO says there has been no shop since before the War and that one or two cottages still have no baths or indoor toilets. Council houses; younger people cannot afford to buy properties. Countryside. Commentary says that Ernest Gimson died in 1919, with his last work being the design of the library at Bedales School, Hampshire, completed by Sidney Barnsley. Interior and exterior views, the latter displaying a mix of urban and rustic elements. Factory. Countryside. Leicester. Quotation from Morris’s lecture to the Secular Society: "the beginnings of Social Revolution must be the foundations of the re-building of the Art of the People, that is to say of the Pleasure of Life". Credits.