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Detmar Blow
Personal information
Name Detmar Blow
Nationality British
Birth date 1867
Birth place England
Date of death 1939
Place of death Hilles, England
Work
Significant buildings Hilles

Eaton Hall (Cheshire)

Detmar Jellings Blow (1867 - 1939) was a British architect of the early 20th century, who designed principally in the arts and crafts style. Eaton Hall is a Country house set within a large Park in the village of Eccleston near Chester in England. Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, and American Aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the His clients belonged chiefly to the British aristocracy, and later he became estates manager to the Duke of Westminster. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor 2nd Duke of Westminster GCVO DSO (familiarly "Bendor" ( March 19 1879 &ndash July 19

Horwood House, designed by Detmar Blow in an Elizabethan style in 1912
Horwood House, designed by Detmar Blow in an Elizabethan style in 1912

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Early career

Blow was one of the last disciples of John Ruskin whom as a young man he had accompanied on his last journey abroad. Little Horwood is a Village and also a Civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. Romance and reality The Victorian era and the early twentieth century idealised the Elizabethan era John Ruskin (8 February 1819 &ndash 20 January 1900 is best known for his work as an Art critic, sage writer, and Social critic, but is remembered Blow was patronised by the Wyndham family, who at their country house Clouds in Wiltshire created a salon frequented by many of the leading intellectual and artistic figures of the day, known as The Souls, who welcomed Blow into their midst admiring his romantic socialist views. George Wyndham ( 29 August 1863 &ndash 8 June 1913) was an English Political figure. Etymology The county formerly 'Wiltonshire' or 'Wiltunscir' (9th century is named after the former county town of Wilton (itself named after the River Wylye The Souls were a small loosely-knit but distinctive social group in England, from 1885 to about 1920 Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution

Blow's architectural work was very much influenced by his mentors Ruskin, William Holman Hunt and Philip Webb, the architect of Clouds (1886). William Holman Hunt (b 2 April 1827 in Cheapside, London &ndash d Philip Speakman Webb ( 12 January, 1831 &ndash 17 April 1915) was an English Architect &mdash sometimes called the In his early career he adopted the role of the wandering architect, travelling artisan-like with his own band of masons from project to project. An artisan, also called a Craftsman, is a skilled manual worker who crafts items that may be functional or strictly decorative including furniture clothing Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar, and the term "masonry" can also refer to the units themselves He married the aristocratic and intellectual Winifred Tollemache, and began to be patronised by the higher echelons of the British aristocracy. Aristocracy is a form of Government, where rule is established through an internal struggle over who has the most status and influence over society and internal relations While much of his early work was, like that of his contemporary Lutyens, in the Arts and Crafts style, his later work was dictated by the whims of his aristocratic patrons. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA, LLD ( 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, and American Aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the Patronage is the support encouragement privilege and often financial aid given by a person or an organization At one point during his career he and Lutyens contemplated entering together into an architectural partnership.

Amongst the buildings designed by Blow were Hilles, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, the mansion he built for himself after 1914, very much influenced by the ideals of Ruskin, Webb and Morris. Stroud is a Town and Civil parish in the County of Gloucestershire, England. History See also History of Gloucestershire Gloucestershire is a historic county mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 10th century In 1908 he rebuilt Bramham Park for the Lane Fox family; however, this commission was a restoration of the former Baroque house which had been severely damaged by fire in 1828. Year 1908 ( MCMVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Bramham Park is a country house between Leeds and Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England. Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc

Patronage of the 2nd Duke of Westminster

Blow designed various properties for Hugh "Bendor" Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, including Château de Woolsack, a hunting lodge in Mimizan, France, near Bordeaux. In due course he became a great friend of the duke, which led to the latter appointing Blow in 1916 to manage the Westminster estates. These covered vast tracts of Belgravia and Mayfair in London, a position given, to which the quixotic Blow was completely unsuitable. As a result of the demands of overseeing the properties, Blow allowed his architectural career to dwindle. This proved to be a catastrophic mistake, when his reputation was later destroyed.

For unknown reasons, the architect became the target of the jealousy of the duke's third wife, the former Loelia Ponsonby, who convinced her husband that Blow was embezzling money from the estate, a claim Blow vigorously denied. Following a vindictive campaign of hatred by the Westminsters, the architect and his family were shunned by society. He was driven by the scandal to insanity.

After Blow's death, the Westminsters divorced, and the duke re-investigated the matter. He found Blow to be innocent of all accusations of dishonesty.

Notable works

Trivia

Detmar Blow was a descendant of the English restoration composer John Blow. Horwood House lies south east of the village of Little Horwood in Buckinghamshire. Little Horwood is a Village and also a Civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. Stanway House is an example of a Jacobean Manor house, owned by Tewkesbury Abbey for 800 years then for 500 years by the Tracy family and their descendants John Blow (baptised 23 February 1649 &ndash 1 October 1708 was an English Composer and Organist.

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