William MorrisArtist, Craftsman, Pioneer
Rosalind Ormiston;NM Wells
The wallpaper and fabric designs of William Morris (1834–1896), created in the 19th century, have remained popular into the 21st. This lavishly illustrated volume reveals the breadth of his achievement beyond designing pattern – as poet, painter, typographer, manufacturer and Socialist. The authors first trace Morris’s life, then survey the development of his work, from the botanical designs of the 1860s, to The Adoration of the Magi (1890), the tapestry made in collaboration with Edward Burne-Jones and John Henry Dearle.