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The Crafts Study Centre, established as a charity in 1970, has an international standing as a unique collection and archive of twentieth century British Crafts. The Chair of the Crafts Study Centre is the eminent potter and writer Professor Edmund de Waal.
Its collection embraces ceramics, textiles, calligraphy and wood, accompanied by reference books including makers' diaries, documents, photographs and craftspeople's working notes. The collection includes work by influential figures such as Bernard Leach, Lucie Rie, and Hans Coper in ceramics; Ethel Mairet, Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher in woven and printed textiles; and calligraphy by Edward Johnston and Irene Wellington; and furniture by Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley. Much of the collection and archive has been built up from donations and bequests. For example, Bernard Leach gave the Centre nearly one hundred of his pots, together with pieces he had collected in Japan, Korea and China (which influenced his work.) He also bequeathed all his papers to the collection (including dairies that documented his time in Japan.) The Centre has also become the guardians of the Leach ceramics displayed at the Leach Pottery, St Ives.
The Crafts Study Centre moved to its new home, as part of the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester in the year 2000.
Celsius is responsible for all of the Centre's graphic design requirements - signage, exhibition graphics and publicity material.
Link: Crafts Study Centre
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