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The Arts and Crafts movement was an international design trend with roots in the UK — and lots of buildings built and ...
Good Friday in 2025 falls on April 18. Christians worldwide will observe the day with prayers and reflection. The day marks ...
Today marks 100 years since the opening of the Paris exposition that introduced art deco to the world. Drawing on our recent ...
How did this Victorian designer and socialist, known for championing craftsmanship, become an icon of consumer culture?
The British artist's designs appear on mugs, plates, shoes and more. A new exhibition explores how his signature style became ...
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 ...
Our associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, visits Morris Mania: How Britain’s greatest designer went viral and talks to the William Morris Gallery’s director Hadrian Garrard.
However, from the mid-century onwards, efforts were made at least to soften its edges, one of the best-known being associated with the designer William Morris. Like his teacher John Ruskin ...
Poet, social reformer, writer, publisher, and above all artist and designer. There is little William Morris couldn’t or didn’t do, so much so that, in 1896, as he lay dying at the age of 62, a doctor ...