The Arts & Crafts Movement was one of enormous intellectual ambition, encompassing everything from menus in Moscow to chic domestic architecture in the United States. The lecture will:

• Examine some of the great British figures, including William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee
• Follow the movement’s little-known but fascinating progress in Russia
• Provide a context for America’s unique contribution, not least The Gamble House

Dr. Rosalind P. Blakesley, senior lecturer in the history of art at the University of Cambridge, was a consultant for “International Arts and Crafts” (2005) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and is the author of several books including “The Arts and Crafts Movement” (2006).

Note: This free lecture is the keynote address for a full-day conference November 8 at the Huntington, held in conjunction with the Gamble House Centennial exhibition “A ‘New and Native’ Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene,” at the Huntington’s Boone Gallery October 18 through January 26, 2009. To register for the conference: e-mail skrasnoo@huntington.org or call (626) 405-3432.

Friday, November 7, 2008, at 7 p.m.