The Terracotta revival

This history of the revival of terracotta in Victorian architecture in Britain provides detailed information on manufacturers and suppliers materials, color, forms and patterns; styles (mainly Gothic and Renaissance revivals); artists and their training at art schools, especially South Kensington (now the Royal College of Art, London); architects and architectural firms and their use of terracotta or faience; and the collaboration that developed out of the South Kensington ideology among architects, decorative artists, and the terracotta industry, lasting into the 20th century.