Charles Eastlake
Architect
1836 – 1906
Who was Charles Eastlake?
Charles Locke Eastlake was a British architect and furniture designer. Trained by the architect Philip Hardwick, he popularized William Morris's notions of decorative arts in the Arts and Crafts style, becoming one of the principal exponents of the revived Early English or Modern Gothic style popular during the nineteenth century. He did not make any furniture; his designs were produced by professional cabinet makers. The style of furniture named after him, Eastlake style, flourished during the later half of the nineteenth century. A style of architecture, with old English and Gothic elements, is also named for him.
In 1868 he published Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other Details, which was very influential in Britain, and later in the United States, where the book was published in 1872.
From 1866 to 1877 he was secretary to the Royal Institute of British Architects, and from 1878 to 1898 he was Keeper of the National Gallery, London. His uncle, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA, was an earlier Keeper of the National Gallery, from 1843 to 1847, which, nowadays, results in much confusion between the two men, whose names are distinguished only by the presence or absence of an "e" in their middle names.
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- Born
- Mar 11, 1836
Plymouth - Also known as
- Charles L Eastlake
- Spouses
- Elizabeth Eastlake
(1849 - )
- Elizabeth Eastlake
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- 1906
Bayswater - Resting place
- Kensal Green Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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