Arts & Crafts Tours We're not your average tour company.

Unprecedented Access

Enjoy opportunities to be welcomed into private homes, gardens, and collections rarely open to the public.  Find yourself dining with your hosts and beautiful objects rarely seen up close.

Knowledageable Experts

Along with your Tour Leader, each tour has a wide range of experts – scholars, curators, historians, artists, and writers – who are your guides, lecturers, companions and dinner partners.

Personal Attention and Service

You’ll be catered to from the moment you arrive in Britain to the moment to get to the airport on your return flight – luxury transportation staying at lavish, country, manors, and delightful lunches.

Examine the Roots of the Movement Whether you have an interest in learning about the Arts and Crafts Movement or have a desire to see some of the most fascinating places, people, and artifacts of the era, join us on one or more of our upcoming tours and immerse yourself in history.

Friends of the Watts Gallery and Artists Village

Friends of the Watts Gallery and Artists Village

In September, we will be examining the works of G.F Watts and his wife Mary Seaton Watts as a special tour for the Friends of the Watts Gallery. We will be traveling from the south to the north of London, visiting places such as Watts Gallery and Watts Chapel.

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WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING

  • An interesting and fun group

    “I wanted to say how much I enjoyed the dinners and their settings. They seemed so intimate and enjoyable – especially having the hosts involved. Such good company – really it was such an interesting and fun group and you added so much – am now reading my books for it – thanks so much.”

    Ruth Y, Connecticut

  • Pure delight!

    We did not think you could plan another tour as wonderful as the William Morris one last summer. But you did – our days in Scotland were pure delight. Many, many thanks.

    Jane and Mary D, Minnesota

  • Trips that are small and specialized

    One gets very spoiled being on trips that are small and specialized, thoughtfully designed and well organized and I can’t imagine traveling any other way!

    Joan M, Washington, DC

Over 25 years of tours

For more than two decades Arts & Crafts Tours has developed and offered visits to private homes and collections to examine objects that represent the acme of British design.

Take a look at our past tours of the Arts and Crafts Movement that led us to become the award-winning tour operator we are today.

SEE OUR PAST TOURS

The Arts and Crafts Movement

Practitioners of the Arts and Crafts Movement created the most exquisite objects, extraordinary homes, and beautiful gardens of the 19th and early 20th century. Learn about its history and the people that influenced the movement.
A Look at the Works and Inspirations of Ernest Gimson

A Look at the Works and Inspirations of Ernest Gimson

Ernest Gimson who died on 11 August 1919 was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as ‘the greatest of the English artist-craftsmen’. He made significant contributions as an architect, a maker of plasterwork and turned chairs, and a designer of embroideries and metalwork but is probably best known today for his furniture. So how do you […]

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Hooray! Hooray! Raise A Glass Today!

Hooray! Hooray! Raise A Glass Today!

This is a year of centenaries and celebrations. Any of you lucky enough to be in London before 22nd April should head straight for Two Temple Place, that extraordinary Gothic mansion beside the Thames, just along from the Savoy Hotel.

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Lest We Forget! Lest We Forget!

Lest We Forget! Lest We Forget!

This is a year of centenaries and celebrations. Any of you lucky enough to be in London before 22nd April should head straight for Two Temple Place, that extraordinary Gothic mansion beside the Thames, just along from the Savoy Hotel.

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A Fresh Look At The Works of Ernest Gimson

A Fresh Look At The Works of Ernest Gimson

A new book titled Ernest Gimson: Arts and Crafts Designer and Architect written by Annette Carruthers, Mary Greensted and Barley Roscoe is being published by Yale University Press in October 2019. Ernest Gimson has been described as ‘the greatest of the English artist-craftsmen’ (Pevsner 1960) and was a central figure in the British Arts and […]

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