Online Lecture: A W N Pugin – Victorian Tile Designer Par Excellence, by Hans van Lemmen

Online Autumn Lecture Series

Crossing Boundaries: Victorian art, Design and Architecture

We are used to the idea of Victorian architecture, art and design as separate disciplines, with their own historians. But that seriously misrepresents the way that many nineteenth-century architects and designers thought and practiced. They conceived of the fine and decorative arts as part of an architectural whole – a total work of art.

These lectures will boldly break down disciplinary boundaries in a discussion of the use of colour and texture across the whole range of Victorian design and analyses of the important roles played by mosaic, stained glass, embroidery and three-dimensional wall coverings.

A W N. Pugin – Victorian Tile Designer Par Excellence, by Hans van Lemmen

Tue 29 October, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

This lecture will look at the floor and wall tiles designed by the Gothic Revival architect A.W.N Pugin for the ceramics manufacturer Herbert Minton in Stoke-on-Trent. The focus will be on the design and production processes and how Pugin’s tiles were used on a large scale in Victorian churches and secular buildings.

Hans van Lemmen is an established author and lecturer on the history of tiles and is President of the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society.

All attendees will be sent a recording of the talk.

Image: Tile by A W N Pugin.

Ticket Price: £6
Date: October 29th, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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