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Webb, Philip Speakman

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Webb, Philip Speakman (1831–1915)

English architect and designer. He was a leading figure (along with Richard Norman Shaw and Charles Voysey) of the Arts and Crafts Movement, which was instrumental in the revival of English domestic architecture in the late 19th century. He mostly designed private houses, notably the Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent (1859), for William Morris.

Other houses include 1 Palace Green and 19 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (1868–69), Joldwyns, Surrey (1873), Smeaton Manor, Yorkshire (1878), Clouds, East Knoyle, Wiltshire (1876–91), Conyhurst, Surrey (1885), and Standen, East Grinstead (1891–94).

For Morris & Co he designed furniture, table glass, metalwork, and elements of wallpaper design.



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