A leading figure of the British Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris (1834-1896) produced more than 50 wallpaper patterns. While the designs have never gone out of production, they are ...

‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful’, advised the influential British designer William Morris (1834-1896), known not only for his signature floral ...

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 ...

William Morris (1834-1896) wrote, “Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” [Hopes and Fears for Art, Rare Books (EX) 3867.4.345] One of the objects ...

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 ...

The designer, artist, author and all-round polymath William Morris (1834-1896) championed the democratisation of good taste, said Nancy Durrant in The Times.An "ardent socialist", he famously ...

William Morris (1834-1896) is arguably Britain’s most celebrated 19th-century designers and one of the key visionaries behind the Arts and Crafts movement.

William Morris seemed indifferent to the fact that his wallpapers contained arsenical pigments. William Morris (1834–1896) was a utopian idealist whose life was full of contradictions.

This is a design by the British artist and designer May Morris. May was born in 1862 and died in 1938. Her father, William Morris (1834 - 1896), was a famous artist and poet, and May is often ...

William Morris (1834-1896), the renowned designer and leading light of the Arts and Crafts movement, was himself an avid collector of artefacts from the Muslim world. Now, a new exhibition at the ...