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Arts and Crafts Movement
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Cathedral Oaks
design
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Frank Ingerson
George Dennison
interior design
summer art school
The Boys
Product details
- ISBN 9781956313017
- Weight: 1236g
- Dimensions: 254 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Splendid Disarray of Beauty: The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks-A Study in Arts and Crafts Community retrieves from obscurity the story of the California artists Frank Ingerson (1879-1968) and George Dennison (1873-1966), known among their friends as "the Boys." In August 1910, they began fifty-five years of love and life together by launching a freestanding summer art school. The Cathedral Oaks school was bohemian in lifestyle but rigorously followed the teachings of the dean of American Arts and Crafts design, Arthur Wesley Dow.
The Boys went on to lead glamorous lives as interior designers in Hollywood and Europe-hobnobbing with Academy Award winners and dining with the Peerage. Married in substance one hundred years before California law got up to their speed, they are two of the most fascinating and admirable people you may have never heard of-until now
Richard D. Mohr is the author of Gays/Justice (1988), Pottery, Politics, Art (2003), God and Forms in Plato (2007), and several other books. Since 1993, he has been a regular contributor to the Journal of the American Art Pottery Association. He is professor emeritus of philosophy and of the classics at the University of Illinois-Urbana.
