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Showing posts with label Morris. Show all posts

Monday, 1 February 2010

Arts and Crafts Movement

By 1860 a vocal minority had become profoundly disturbed by the level to which style, craftsmanship, and public taste had sunk in the wake of the Industrial Revolution and its mass-produced and banal decorative arts...

See the page on Encyclopaedia Britannica

William Morris - decorative arts

See William Morris' original designs for furniture, wallpaper and tapestry, still produced today.

Sunday, 24 January 2010

William Morris, News from nowhere

Watch the first edition of this remarkable book