Blackwell was designed by Arts and Crafts architect M H Baillie Scott as a holiday home for Sir Edward Holt. The house itself is a wonderful combination of architecture, craft and the applied arts. These elements, together with the restored garden terraces and its setting in one of the Lake District's most spectacular positions, create one of the most beautiful and exciting exhibition venues in the country. In order to bring Blackwell to life and reawaken the interiors, works of fine and applied arts have been purchased and borrowed from several large collections including those at Leicester and Cheltenham. Here they are used to enhance the beauty of the interiors and help interpret the wider movement in the arts and crafts of the period and beyond.