Steve Howlett, artist in wood. Society of Designer Craftsmen

The SDC has its own website at www.SocietyofDesignerCraftsmen.org.uk

Please note that I am not now a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.

I have been with the SDC since 1993 but, with great regret, I felt unable to renew my subscription this year as I have no wish to be associated with, what I perceive as, a lowering of standards. However, this in no way detracts from the artists linked to below, who are some of the finest in the country.

About the Society of Designer-Craftsmen

The Society of Designer-Craftsmen is the largest and oldest multi-craft society in the U.K.. The work of members ranges from ceramics, textiles and silversmithing to furniture, stained glass, toymaking and wood, and includes many other disciplines. The aimof the Society is to emphasise designer-making where innovation, originality and quality are paramount. The Society is organised by craftsmen for craftsmen and is administered by a Council comprising Fellows, Members, Licentiates and Associates.

Brief history

The Society was founded in 1888 by Walter Crane and William Morris and was formerly known as The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Its purpose was to give a voice to, and to organise exhibitions for, the growing body of designer-makers of the time. Today, the Society still organises an annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.

Contact details:

Society of Designer Craftsmen
24 Rivington Street
London
EC2A 3DU

tel/fax: 020 7739 3663
email: info@societyofdesignercraftsmen.org.uk

The links below are to web sites of Members or Fellows of the Society of Designer-Craftsmen.
This is by no means a comprehensive list, and in no particular order(!),
just one I have put together of sites I know about.

Tim Gee- ceramics.

Christine-Ann Richards - ceramics.

John Makepeace - furniture designer and maker.

Gary Wornell - ceramics

Pruden & Smith - silversmiths

Sally Pollitzer - architectural glass

Mathew Burt - furniture

Peter Powning - vessels & sculpture in bronze, glass & clay

i tre furniture - Petter Bjorn Southall - furniture

Peter Collingwood - hand weaver of macrogauzes, wall-hangings, tablet-weaving, ply-splitting.

www.weavershand.com - this site contains a section devoted to Peter Collingwood's works and writings.

Jason Collingwood Jason Collingwood - rug weaver.

Alicia Merrett - contemporary art quilts

Althea McNish & John Weiss - greetings cards

David Savage - furniture designer and maker

Alastair Gill - jeweller

Bethan Ash - quilt artist

Gillian Recordon - textile designer

Caroline Bousfield - potter

Geraldine Mcgloin - ceramics

Philip Morris - sculptor

Leslie J Morgan - quilts