Peter Womersley Peggy Guggenheim Collection Arts and Crafts and brutalism

Arts and Crafts and brutalism

and the new works they completed in exile

Designs by some of the period’s heavyweights – including Anatol Kagan

This publication is made possible in part by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

unveiling the stories behind objects that surround us and that we often take for granted

Peter Womersley Peggy Guggenheim Collection Arts and Crafts and brutalismPaperback, 204 pages By Neil Jackson Published in his centenary year, this book celebrates the life and work of the British architect Peter Womersley (1923 1993). From Farnley Hey near Huddersfield, his award winning first building completed in 1954, to the angular, look no hands concrete structure of the Fairydean football stand in Galashiels, Womersley continuously pushed the frontiers of architectural design. Working from a small office in the