biography
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Godwin, Edward William
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1833–86)
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| biography:
| Architect and designer, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He trained as an architect at Bristol. Northampton Town Hall (1861) dates from his early Gothic period. His mainly domestic architecture included the White House in Chelsea (1877) for his friend Whistler. A central figure in the ‘Aesthetic Movement’, his furniture designs after 1875 were much influenced by the Japanese taste which that movement made fashionable. He also designed textiles and wallpapers. |
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