Edward ("Ted") Bosley is Director of the historic Gamble House in Pasadena. In addition to his duties there, he has published and lectured widely on the Gamble House, architects Greene and Greene who designed the Gamble House in 1908 and the American Arts and Crafts Movement.
This talk focuses on the San Francisco Swedenborgian Church as a paradigm expression of the Arts & Crafts era in the American West, bridging the movement’s Ruskinian origins in Britain to its development on the edge of the continent. It is a story of artists, architects and the craft collaboration and cohesion that came about through the vision the Reverend Joseph Worcester more than a century ago. Worcester’s quiet brand of persuasion would override “professional” advice to bring about an enduring work of inspiring architectural poetry, rooted in spiritual lessons.
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