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William Burges ‘Ugly Burges, who designs lovely things…’ William Burges was said to be the most gifted and well-loved architect and designer of his time. His looks were such that his friends fondly called him ‘Ugly Burges’. He also had very poor eyesight. Despite this, he went on to design the most beautiful,
William 'Billy' Burges was short, fat and bad-tempered. He was also a genius who created some of the most extraordinary buildings of the Nineteenth Century. Completely immersed in the world of the Middle Ages, he designed Churches, castles, bridges, interiors, furniture, textiles, metalwork and jewellery for his few, equally individual clients.
28 de jun. de 2017 · Like so many artists before and after him, William Burges was able to create his wildly imaginative buildings and designs because of aristocratic patronage. In 1865 he met John Patrick Crichton Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, whose family’s considerable wealth, derived from the coal fields of South Wales, made him the richest man in Britain, if not the world.
Burges, William. London, United Kingdom. 2, December, 1827 – 20, April 1881. The Tower House, Kensington, London, United Kingdom. William Burges was a leading Victorian era architect practicing in the United Kingdom. Within his time as an architect, he received several awards and worked for passionate medievalist John Patrick Crichton Stuart ...
5 de feb. de 2013 · William Burges (1827-81) was arguably the greatest of all Victorian architects. But he was more than just the creator of a modest number of fabulous, and fabulously expensive, buildings. He dreamed of hundreds more, designed dozens, and in addition created some of the most remarkable furniture and jewellery of all time. He was an art-architect.
William Burges. William Burges was the son of a prosperous civil engineer; educated at King's College, London, and articled to Edward Blore in 1844. In 1849 he went into the office of Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt where he worked on drawings of mediaeval metalwork for Wyatt's large book, Metalwork, which appeared in 1852.
William Burges, né le 2 décembre 1827 et mort le 20 avril 1881, est un architecte anglais de l' époque victorienne. Il cherche dans ses ouvrages à échapper au style industriel propre au XIXe siècle et à l'architecture néoclassique, sa pâte se rapprochant davantage des préraphaélites.
