Introduction

Horace Elliott, a London-based designer, worked in ceramics, wood/bamboo and metal between 1880-1934. He started selling ceramics near the British Museum in 1880, and opened his own retail premises in Bayswater / Knightsbridge, moving to Chelsea (1898) and then Streatham (c1905). Horace exhibited widely, including three Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society events (1889, 1890 and 1893), the Imperial Institute, London and ‘Araby’, Dublin (both 1894).

The book

Horace Elliott – Artist in Pottery, 1851-1938 | Author Jonathan Gray

In the foreword to Horace Elliott – Artist in Pottery, 1851-1938, Paul Atterbury explains: “The emergence of industrial design, as a concept and as a practical reality, shaped the decorative arts in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain through the Aesthetic and the Arts & Crafts movements… Jonathan’s book places Horace Elliott at the heart of this. An entrepreneur, a practical potter with an understanding of modern ceramic processes, an inventor, a marketing specialist with a modern view of promotion and brand awareness, a retailer, Elliott was all those things and more. Driven by his own particular ceramic vision, he worked with potteries in England, Wales, Scotland and Germany. Yet, this important industrial designer is absent from both Arts & Crafts and ceramic literature. This book brings Horace Elliott back to life and rescues him from the rather extraordinary oblivion that has surrounded him since his death.”

The book: Hardback with dust cover, full colour throughout, 210mm x 270mm, 440 pages, over 480 images and split into fifteen chapters.

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“The emergence of industrial design, as a concept and as a practical reality, shaped the decorative arts in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain through the Aesthetic and the Arts & Crafts movements… Jonathan’s book places Horace Elliott at the heart of this.”

Paul Atterbury – BBC Antiques Roadshow