Design Influences

Here is another design from the lampbases and shades by Madeleine Bradbury of Bloomsbury Interiors which have inspired me to get back into wood turning.

      Charleston House Gift Shop . 

In turn, Bradbury has been inspired by the original lampbases of  Winifred Gill, a member of the Omega Workshop which was set up by Roger Fry. Her 'Owl' lampbase designs for Omega demonstrate fairly basic spindle turning. It is the applied decoration which is so accomplished.

Omega Workshops, painted lamp bases, 1913 by Winifred Gill

I am afraid my copy of Vision and Design, Roger Fry's treatise on Formalism isn't well thumbed but his huge influence on 'taste' and appreciation of design has touched so many great and gifted artists. 

Fry was the  first person to coin the term 'Post Impressionism' and was a key figure in the Bloomsbury Group, many of whom settled or visited the house of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant at Charleston Farmhouse, nr Glynde, East Sussex.