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Dartington Hall School, founded in 1926, offered a progressive coeducational boarding life. When it started there was a minimum of formal classroom activity and the children learned by involvement in estate activities.
William Weir (1865-1950) was the craftsman-architect responsible for the reconstruction of the roof of the Great Hall at Dartington. Use this interactive feature to explore Dartington Hall's extraordinary history through some of the inspirational figures who have helped shape it.
Early initiatives included Dartington Hall School, Dartington Tweed Mill and later Dartington Glass. Dartington also rapidly became a magnet for artists, architects, writers, philosophers and musicians from around the world, creating an exceptional centre of creative activity.
The hippy age, an uncouth descendant of the gracious 'progressiveness' of the Twenties and Thirties, gave Dartington Hall School a knock from which it never fully recovered. Now, on 1 July...
Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, set up in Devon in 1925 by a fabulously wealthy American heiress, Dorothy Elmhirst (née Whitney), and her Yorkshire-born husband, Leonard. It quickly achieved international fame with its progressive school, craft production and wide-ranging artistic endeavours.
3 de ago. de 2019 · This article looks at Dartington Hall as an outstanding practical example of this impulse to promote holistic, integrated living – exploring the project as an interlinked constellation of experiments in education, the arts, agriculture and social organization; and also looking at how Dartington’s philosophy and trajectory matched ...
Dartington was a progressive, liberal co-educational school. Foxhole was built as its junior school but was first used for senior children. The school was built in 1931-2 and designed by Oswald P Milne for Dartington Hall in a Neo Georgian style.
