'By the 1880s, taste in art was changing. Anti-sentimentalism and the Aesthetic movement began to take hold. Holl became part of the artistic elite in London who had prestigious, purpose-built studio homes. His extravagant house, Three Gables in Hampstead’s Fitzjohn’s Avenue, was designed by fashionable architect Norman Shaw centred on a gigantic studio. He moved there in 1882, a far cry from his Camden Town origins.'
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:00:47 +0000
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