This talk is part of the Online Autumn Lecture Series 2025 called Hot Off The Press: Victorians in the Bookshops. Follow this link to book all of the lectures.
Our autumn lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on ÂÜÀòÊÓÆµarchitecture and related topics. All the speakers are the authors of new books, either just published or forthcoming. Among them are two contributors to the highly successful series ÂÜÀòÊÓÆµArchitects, published by the ÂÜÀòÊÓÆµSociety in collaboration with Liverpool University Press. As well as discussions of individual architects, the subjects of the lectures range from interiors of the Aesthetic Movement to one of the greatest of all ÂÜÀòÊÓÆµcollectors.
Halsey Ricardo: A Life in Arts and Crafts by Mark Bertram
Halsey Ricardo (1854–1928) is a well known Arts and Crafts figure thanks to his business partnership with William De Morgan, for whom he designed tiles and vases, and his role as head of architecture at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. He was an engaging personality, as well as a forward-looking thinker and gifted lecturer and essayist, and his architectural work, most famously No. 8 Addison Road, London (designed for Ernest Debenham in 1905) was often highly individualistic in its innovative use of colour and glazed materials. Mark Bertram’s monograph on Ricardo (his great-grandfather) was published by Lund Humphries in March.
All attendees will be sent a recording of the talk.