Inspired partly by the art historian John Ruskin, Morris's Arts and Crafts aesthetic directly or indirectly influenced a huge swath of artistic and literary movements over the coming decades, from Art Nouveau to the artists' books of the Futurists and Dadaists.

The English writer, designer, architect and socialist William Morris (1834-1896) was its defining figure. Morris rejected the tawdry production values and dehumanising aspects of Victorian capitalism, looking instead to the communal values of the medieval era.

Deeply influenced by the socially aware teachings of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau designers endeavored to achieve the synthesis of art and craft, and further, the creation of the spiritually uplifting Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of …

2018年1月28日 · Having produced over 50 wallpaper designs throughout his career, William Morris became an internationally renowned designer and manufacturer during the Arts and Crafts movement. After designing the Red House, his family home for five years, Morris went on to open his own company, Morris & Co.

2021年6月3日 · A true Renaissance man, William Morris mastered every art and craft to which he set his hand, revelling in designs, patterns, colours and textures, and placing his stamp on sumptuous books, rugs, embroidery, wallpaper, stained glass, tapestries, curtains and furniture.

2019年11月11日 · English designer William Morris (1834-1896) spearheaded this movement by founding Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co in 1861. At the time, people considered industrially-produced items to be non-artistic, and utilitarian.

2025年1月18日 · Art Nouveau. Art Nouveau was an international design movement that emerged and touched all of the design arts—architecture, fashion, furniture, graphic, and product design—during the 1890s and the early 20th century. Its defining characteristic was a …

2024年12月9日 · Art Nouveau, style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States. Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration.

William Morris is best known as the 19th century's most celebrated designer, but he was also a driven polymath who spent much of his life fighting the consensus. A key figure in the Arts & Crafts Movement, Morris championed a principle of handmade production that didn't chime with the Victorian era's focus on industrial 'progress'.

2024年12月6日 · William Morris was an English designer, craftsman, poet, and early socialist, whose designs for furniture, fabrics, stained glass, wallpaper, and other decorative arts generated the Arts and Crafts movement in England and revolutionized Victorian taste.