Studio Lives: Architect, Art and Artist in 20th-Century Britain block by Barbara Hepworth

by Barbara Hepworth

Materials: Made from 100% cotton drill

David Chipperfield is of one of Britain’s leading architects

Iron in the clay body comes through

"If the Winged Figure in Oxford Street gives people a sense of being airborne in rain and sunlight and nightlight I will be very happy

Studio Lives: Architect, Art and Artist in 20th-Century Britain block by Barbara HepworthBy examining the studios and studio houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the ways in which artists used architecture occupying and adapting Victorian studios and commissioning new ones. In doing so, it shows them coming to terms with the past, and inventing different modes of being modern, collaborating with architects and influencing the modernist style. In its scrutiny of the physical surroundings of artistic life