Many of Nigel Tyas Ironwork’s designs are inspired by the style and ethos of the Arts and Crafts movement.
The Arts and Crafts movement was a celebration of simple, honest craftsmanship and a reaction against both the mass production of the industrial revolution and the excessive frivolity of Victorian style.
Spanning 1860 to 1920, it’s leading lights embraced ornamentation but saw it as secondary to the thing being ornamented. First and foremost, they respected the way a product was made, they valued the materials used and they sought to support a revival of handmade craftsmanship over automation.
Arts and Crafts designs were characterised by being in harmony with nature and featured flat, simplified, well-balanced designs and patterns.
Could anything sound more like us?! Our blacksmiths design and make all our wrought iron products in our rural Yorkshire forge, inspired by the natural world around us and using traditional techniques.
Several of our designs echo Arts and Crafts lines of symmetry, motifs and decorative features.
One hundred years on from the height of the Arts and Crafts movement, the team at Nigel Tyas is working by the same principles as its pioneers in furniture design, architecture and interiors including Edwin Lutyens, Philip Webb, William Morris, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Ernest Gimson.
There is a renewed interest in the way objects for our homes are designed and made today. There’s a growing appreciation of quality materials and craftsmanship and we are very proud to be part of an arts and crafts movement in the 21st century.
This Arts and Crafts style collection is just a edited pick of our unique, handmade wrought iron product range. See our full range of curtain poles here homeware here fire irons here and lighting here