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28 Ιαν 2018 · Having produced over 50 wallpaper designs throughout his career, William Morris became an internationally renowned designer and manufacturer during the Arts and Crafts movement. After designing the Red House, his family home for five years, Morris went on to open his own company, Morris & Co.
7 Οκτ 2024 · William Morris was an English designer, craftsman, poet, and early socialist, whose designs for furniture, fabrics, stained glass, wallpaper, and other decorative arts generated the Arts and Crafts movement in England and revolutionized Victorian taste.
7 Οκτ 2024 · Among them was the English reformer, poet, and designer William Morris, who, in 1861, founded a firm of interior decorators and manufacturers—Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company (after 1875, Morris and Company)—dedicated to recapturing the spirit and quality of medieval craftsmanship.
William Morris, a textile designer who was a key influence on the Arts and Crafts movement. William Morris (1834–1896) was the towering figure in late 19th-century design and the main influence on the Arts and Crafts movement.
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, [1] writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.
Morris and his collaborators were significantly influenced in their decorative tastes by the work of William Bruges, a designer who in the late 1850s had begun using a medieval technique for decorating furniture with varnish that he had sourced from a 12th-century manuscript.
The Arts and Crafts movement is often seen as the starting point for modern design approaches, as noted in Nikolaus Pevsner's book Pioneers of Modern Design: William Morris to Walter Gropius first published 1936.
