This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a design by Maxwell Armfield entitled Summer Trail. Though small and not in excellent condition, this design is an interesting find in the collection, for Maxwell Armfield (1881-1972)… Read More ›
The Friday gem this week features a small collection of pencil and charcoal design sketches by Max Forrer, bought by James Templeton & Co. in the early 1930s (STOD/DES/121/5/1-10). The Stoddard Templeton Design Archive contains quite a number of designs by… Read More ›
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a series of sketches by H. W. Batley. Henry William Batley (1846-1932) was an artist and furniture and textile designer most widely associated with the Aesthetic Movement. A… Read More ›
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a design for a suite of carpets for Glasgow Cathedral. Designed by Scottish artist and craftsman R. Scott McDonald in c1963, this vibrant red design has as its central feature… Read More ›
Following on from our previous post about the design for the Coronation of Edward VIII that was unfortunately never executed due to Edward’s abdication, this week’s post is about a carpet Templeton’s did make for the Coronation of King George VI, which took place… Read More ›
This week’s gem from the Stoddard – Templeton Design Archive is a design by Paris-based designer Hélène Gallet from 1937 and was intended to celebrate the proposed coronation of Edward VIII. But just a few months into his reign, Edward caused… Read More ›
This week’s gem is an unassuming little book from the Stoddard Templeton Design Archive known as the Templeton Register of Designs Bought: Sketches 1897-1915. It might not look like much, but it is a true archival gem when it comes… Read More ›
This week’s gem from the Stoddard-Templeton Design Archive is a beautiful black and white design. It was one of the first designs I came across when I started work on the project and with the stark use of just black and white, it really… Read More ›
We have been working on the project to catalogue the thousands of sketches and patterns that make up the design archive of the Stoddard – Templeton Collection for almost a month now, and even in this short time, we have… Read More ›
