Designer Biography

Maurice Bingham Adams

Born: 1849

Died: 1933

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Trained as an architect in Brighton, Adams moved to London in 1870 and joined the staff of Building News, of which he eventually became editor. Regarded as the best architectural perspectivist of his time, he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1876. He worked with R. Norman Shaw, illustrating Shaw's Sketches for Cottages (1878). He collaborated with Godwin on Artistic Conservatories (1880), and published a study of Artists' Homes (1883). He was involved in the Georgian revival and designed for a number of firms, including: Holland & Sons; William Watt (neo-Chippendale furniture during the 1880s); Robertson & Son of Alnwick; Gillow's; Wilcock & Co. (architectural faience, 1880, exhibited in 1881 at Howell, James & Co., and published the following year in a catalogue); Messenger & Co. and the Coalbrookdale Company (both metalwork). Wilcock & Co. established the Burmantofts Pottery.