For more than two decades, Arts & Crafts Tours has developed and offered tours to visit private homes and collections, examining objects that represent the acme of British design.
Our Recent Tour
Our tour will trace many of the events and locations associated with Morris’s hugely prolific career, while also examining his fruitful collaborations with many of the leading artists, designers and architects of his time and his subsequent influence on later craft-workers. We begin in London, where Morris spent the greater part of his life and where outstanding examples of his work can be seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum and at Holy Trinity Church, Chelsea.
Our Past Tour Archive
Mark your calendars and come along with us from September 10th to 19th, 2016 when in the company of Dr. James Macaulay, and several other noted guides we will examine some ...
From Greenlaw, we head south stopping at Cragside, designed by Richard Norman Shaw who taught the three and then on to the marvelous St. Andrew’s Church by E.S. Prior in ...
This will be the second tour to focus principally on libraries, private presses and the often hidden treasures of private houses and museum print rooms. The first tour concentrated on ...
This tour begins on Saturday, May 12, 2018 in Oxford where Morris met so many who changed his history and the future he had planned. It was here he met ...
While in Liverpool we will also spend a day at Port Sunlight the enlightened workers village built by Lord Lever with homes by such major architects as Edwin Lutyens and ...
We are especially pleased that the American Friends of the Arts & Crafts in Chipping Campden has asked us to organize a tour for them to celebrate the 10th anniversary ...
We begin at the St Bride Foundation just off of Fleet Street which is the museum of the history of printing with presses and materials that go back to the ...
This tour was organized to coincide with an exhibition at the Tate Britain titled Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde to which the Delaware Art Museum had loaned a number of paintings.
Romania is a country waiting to be discovered by tourists and this tour introduced its romance, history, myth, and beauty as no other trip there could. It began with three ...
Most people are aware of the exceptional furniture, decorative arts, and architecture, which were created as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Especially in England where it began, it ...
Among the many visits on this trip were ones to such important of Morris’s works as the Oxford Union Society, the William Morris Gallery, Wightwick Manor, St. James’s Palace, Kelmscott ...
A real understanding of 19th century English domestic architecture calls for an appreciation of the unique alliance between house and garden, but you hardly need an excuse to visit England’s ...
The history of Scotland and the area known as the Borders is one intricately connected to battles and confrontation. Within Arts and Crafts traditions, this can best be examined in ...
Now, more than a century later, Bloomsbury Revisited enabled a small group to spend a week following in their footsteps, visiting the places in London where they lived, exhibited and ...
It’s not often you get to retrace the steps of those you admire. Many of the leading British arts and crafts designers took much of their inspiration from visiting other ...
August 2016 Our introduction to Finland begins in Helsinki, a city filled with treasures of the Arts and Crafts Movement, known there as Jugenstil. We are especially delighted that Cody ...
This tour organized to coincide with an exhibition at the Tate Britain titled Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde to which the Delaware Art Museum had loaned a number of paintings. In eight ...
September 10-20, 2016 We are delighted to be offering this tour once again in September 2016. Though the history of Scotland and the area known as the Borders is one ...
The first of which will be Tiles and Ceramics of the Arts and Crafts Movement. On this trip, we will travel through the western part of England and Wales where much ...
June 18-28, 2016 Confronted by the terrifying and exhilarating changes that industrialization in the 19th century brought to Britain, the artists and thinkers of the Arts and Crafts Movement found ...
JULY 31 TO AUGUST 12, 2016 Arts & Crafts Tours is delighted to be partnering with Festival Daniou for a most unique and exciting tour in the summer of 2016. ...
June 16 – 24, 2018 If you like houses and gardens, this is your tour. In June we are offering a tour with special cache taking you inside a number ...
We’ve put together a trip designed to enchant the eye, pique the mind, and delight the palate. With our incomparable access, you will enjoy privileged entrance to some of the ...
We are extremely lucky to not only have Elizabeth Elvin, former Principal of the Royal School of Needlework, as our guide on this trip, but she has also been able ...
This past June, we offered a tour called Bloomsbury Revisited, which quickly sold out and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Our participants appreciated our focused tour agenda which offered opportunities ...
W.C.Fields once said, “I’d rather be in Philadelphia” and in early September we hope you too would rather be in Philadelphia on another special Arts & Crafts Tour. It’s a ...
Join us on a unique eight-day tour of England to visit museums, private homes, and churches featuring the work of members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their circle. Organized especially ...
Following last year’s exciting and successful trip to Rome and Venice, The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts is once again pleased to offer a very special tour for our ...