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When the life-work of William Morris comes to be estimated, most, even of those who are fairly familiar with his ceaseless energy, will be astonished at the amount he achieved and produced.
Today, Morris is synonymous with "middlebrow" taste, said Edwin Heathcote in the FT.His work is "the aesthetic of the museum shop", "the twee mail-order catalogue" and "the country-house tea room ...
William Morris is known for his beautiful plant patterns – but he also foretold the climate crisis. He was an environmental visionary and way ahead of his time, writes Andrea Watson ...
The first way to make William Morris prints work in a kitchen, is via a kitchen rug. ‘The hard, cold surfaces of tile or wood floors of a kitchen can be unforgiving,' comments Charlotte Ford ...
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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 ...
These themes are explored in two London exhibitions, The Enchanted Garden at the William Morris Gallery and Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain. Morris’s affinity with nature began early.
Morris's idea of Socialism is best shown by a short extract from a funeral address over the body of one of the victims of "Bloody Sunday": Our friend who lies here has had a hard life and met with ...
Part of the series of biographies of William Morris. Thompson's first major work of scholarship was his biography of William Morris, written while he was a member of the Communist Party. Subtitled ...