Chapter 24: ). His increasing material success after the opening years of

the century, rivalling Shaw’s in the previous generation, is to a certain extent the measure, though not the cause, of Voysey’s decline in popularity.

C. R. Ashbee (1863-1942) and George Walton (1867-1933)[354] were other domestic architects active in the nineties and the early years of the new century. The latter belongs to the Glasgow School, of which Mackintosh was the principal figure, and like Mackintosh he was more decorator than architect (see Chapter 17). One house in England, The Leys at Elstree of 1901, may be mentioned here. The interiors are fine examples of the Arts and Crafts mode, as it is sometimes called, more stylized than Voysey’s but less original than Mackintosh’s. The plan is organized symmetrically around a large two-storey hall rivalling Baillie Scott’s of the period in its complex spatial development.

Ashbee was one of the first Europeans to appreciate the significance of Wright, and was appropriately chosen by Wasmuth to write the introduction to his second publication of Wright’s work in 1911 (see