About
The main representative of Art Nouveau in Great Britain, he was influenced by the Industrial Revolution. Redesigned famed architect and designer W.J. Bassett-Lowke's home.
Before Fame
He became in 1890 the second person to win the Alexander Thomson Travelling Studentship award. He discovered his love for painting floral watercolors while vacationing in Suffolk.
Trivia
He and his wife, along with another couple, formed "The Four," a collaborative architecture group.
Family Life
He was the fourth of 12 children; his father invented the popular style of raincoat known as a mackintosh. He married Margaret MacDonald in 1900, with whom he fathered two children.
Associated With
He and Frank Lloyd Wright were contemporaries.
