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The Victorian Society: EW Godwin- Architecture into Art by Aileen Reid
The Victorian Society: EW Godwin- Architecture into Art by Aileen Reid
Tue, 2 Dec 2025
19:00 – 20:30
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Although his fame today rests on his distinguished Aesthetic Movement furniture, E.W. Godwin (1833–86) styled himself ‘architect’.
Although his fame today rests largely on his distinguished Aesthetic Movement furniture and friendships with Oscar Wilde and J.M. Whistler, throughout his life E.W. Godwin (1833–86) styled himself ‘architect’ above and before anything else. Although the legacy of his buildings is relatively small, his architectural design reached unmatched heights of creativity and distinctiveness, whether in his early years as a leading exponent of Ruskinian Gothic at Northampton Town Hall or in his radical approach to domestic design in his later artists’ studio houses in Chelsea.
Aileen Reid’s monograph on Godwin, the first to focus on his buildings, will be published in Liverpool University Press’s Victorian Architects series in collaboration with the Society in the spring of next year
All attendees will be sent a recording of the talk.
£6 – £11
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