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Your Home Designed in the 1800s, William Morris wallpaper is once again on trend — in a big way While the noted Arts and Crafts designer’s patterns have never gone out of production, they are ...
In the mid-1870s, Morris's socialist beliefs strengthened and he resigned his directorship. At about this time the firm that made Morris's wallpaper, Jeffrey & Co, in Islington, north London ...
William Morris (1834-1896) was a poet, artist, designer, Romantic, socialist, advocate of a return to traditional craft styles and materials - and a peddler of poisonous wallpaper, according to a ...
It makes for a complicated, but extraordinary, legacy – one that's explored in glorious blooming detail by a new exhibition, ‘Morris Mania: How Britain’s greatest designer went viral’, at William ...
The obituaries and reminiscences that followed the death of William Morris on October 3 1896 refer to him as a great poet, thinker and tireless worker in the service of humanity, securing his ...
Wallpaper designed by a celebrated artist has been restored to mark its creator's 190th birthday. William Morris's willow bough print was hanging at Wightwick Manor and Gardens in Wolverhampton ...
Coinciding with the relaunch of 100-plus fabrics and wallpapers, Morris & Co. is debuting Owl & Willow, a mural-like wallpaper panel that incorporates many of Morris’s chief inspirations.
A vine weaving through a trellis. A gang of mischievous thrushes stealing strawberries. A scrolling acanthus. These are just a few of the nature-inspired motifs William Morris, the designer ...
Morris (1834-1896) was less explicit about his Islamic sources than artist friends such as William De Morgan (whose “Lion Rampant” tile panel of 1888-98 appears in an upstairs room).
Wallpaper designed by a celebrated artist has been restored to mark its creator's 190th birthday. William Morris's willow bough print was hanging at Wightwick Manor and Gardens in Wolverhampton ...