More than two decades after a major William Morris archive left Britain for Californian pastures new, a remarkable chapter in design history has been written. Back in 1999, controversy arose when The ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. | William Morris, the father of the English Arts and Crafts movement that spurned 19th-century manufacturing techniques and favored quality handmade objects, is the subject of a new ...
Now, Morris & Co. – the original company founded by Morris, today part of the Sanderson Design Group, a luxury interior furnishings brand – is partnering with The Huntington to present The Unfinished ...
Aghast at the notion of progressive Machine Age design, William Morris, then just a teenager, refused to enter the Great Exhibition of 1851 at London’s Crystal Palace. His early reverence for handmade ...
If nature is an enduring theme for designers, then William Morris is one of the all-time greats. Morris, a 19th-century leader of the Arts and Crafts movement, was a champion of the outdoors. Today, ...
British textile designer William Morris has been honoured with a Google doodle, on what would have been his 182nd birthday. Morris was born in Walthamstow, then in Essex, on March 24, 1834. As well as ...
Located in Walthamstow this design trail is inspired by William Morris’s statement ‘art made by the people and for the people’, and will focus on the themes of craft, unity, simplicity and community.
130 years after the death of William Morris, a London gallery is exploring his legacy of designs, inspired by nature and by a range of cultures, that live on. His floral patterns are still everywhere.
William Morris by Abel Lewis, printed by James Edward Bruton (Brunton) platinotype cabinet card, April 1880. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON The British artist William Morris is well known for his ...