Letters of Philip Webb and His Contemporaries

Brandon-Jones, John; Faulkner, Christopher; Eastlake, Charles Locke; Webb, Philip; Butterfield, William H.; Chamberlain, Robert S.; Bodley, G. F.

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“…In a letter refusing a commission for a large country house Webb wrote, '…for some time past I have decided not to undertake to build for anyone who is not conversant with my work and able to judge of what would be the finished effect of that which I should agree to carry out'. 29 The Beales, on the other hand, seemd to be fully conversant with Webb's ideas and in the extant letters about the commission at Standen, we can see him puzzling through questions of energy supply, water, windmills and the like, in conversation with his clients.…”

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Designing energy use in a rural setting: a case study of Philip Webb at Standen

Moore

2018

History of Retailing and Consumption

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Standen, built between 1891-4, was intended as the weekend retreat of the newly monied couple James and Margaret Beale. It is known as the first country house to have had electric lighting fully integrated into its interior design plans. Such radical technological innovations in energy supply and use, detailed in the extant building specification, is particularly in need of explanation as Standen was designed by the Arts and Crafts architect, Philip Webb, widely known for his 'natural' designs and anti-modern aesthetic. Working closely with his clients, Webb designed not only the electrical system, but specified a range of sustainable processes for energy supply. As we will see, Standen not only incorporated the newest technologies, but its remote rural location meant that the house itself remained necessarily self-sufficient; both new and old sources of energy were therefore tied in some significant ways to both local environments and age-old patterns of energy use. This article will offer a close reading of the building specifications, and Webb's associated letters and diaries, to explore the energy transformations and consumption choices built into Standen, providing a detailed look at the dynamic intersection of continuity and change embodied in the early stages of energy modernization in one influential rural home.

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Designing energy use in a rural setting: a case study of Philip Webb at Standen

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“…37 In view of Goodhart-Rendel's experience in 1937, it is ironic that it was in a talk to the Architectural Association in 1955 that John Brandon-Jones -who owned Webb's notebooks -more fully described the building's antecedents: 'In almost every detail of Red House Webb followed his former master, and where he departed from the methods of Street he based his design on precedents set by Butterfield.' 38 Brandon-Jones went on to dissociate Red House from the Domestic Revival: 'It was not in Red House but in his later work that [Webb] made his great personal contribution to our building tradition.' Brandon-Jones's analysis of the house extended to the question of its orientation, the main rooms facing north: an issue that has continued to puzzle commentators, but for which, basing his views on a close study of Webb's original plans, he produced convincing explanations.…”

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Red House: Some Architectural Histories

Cooper¹

2006

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William Morris died in October 1896, drawing fresh attention to the circumstances of his life at a moment when he was at the height of his fame. In the same month, Hermann Muthesius took up his post as technical attaché at the German embassy, to make a study of recent English developments in architecture and industry. Just over a century ago, in 1904, he published his great Das englische Haws, the book that did more than anything to place Red House in the mainstream of architectural history. Yet already, in 1897, in the first full-length account of William Morris’s work, Aymer Vallance had written that ‘as an experiment on the part of a man who had both the hopefulness and the dauntless will necessary to enable him to make a stand against the tyranny of custom, to William Morris is owing the credit of having initiated, with his Red House, a new era in house-building’. The historiography of Red House is the story of the different versions of that often-repeated view.

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Letters of Philip Webb and His Contemporaries

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Designing energy use in a rural setting: a case study of Philip Webb at Standen

Designing energy use in a rural setting: a case study of Philip Webb at Standen

Red House: Some Architectural Histories

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