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Arts and crafts living room

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Arts and crafts living room

Architect and furniture designer James Chapman-Taylor was a leading exponent of the arts and crafts style. This is the living room of a house he designed in the early 20th century. The easy chairs are in the arts and crafts idiom.

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Millwood Heritage Archives

Reference: Judy Siers, the life and times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor. Napier: Millwood, 2007.

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William Cottrell, Furniture – Changing styles, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37495/arts-and-crafts-living-room (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by William Cottrell, published 9 March 2012.