Meet the Socialist and Designer William Morris
At this point, you are perhaps wondering who William Morris is and what he has to do with bed and home designs. Well to start thing off, he is a romantic socialist and one of the most influential interior designers of Britain since the 19th century.
His name synonymous with beautiful handcrafted furniture, opulent furnishings, homewares, tapestries, rugs and wallpapers from the Victorian Arts & Crafts Movement. He is also known as one of the greatest pattern designers of all time having an admirable ability to create appealing, repeating designs.
Morris is perhaps one of the inspiring and unique people who are sure to provide a lot of decorative ideas as far as home improvement is concerned.
It was the beauty of the world about him – the flowers, trees and woods – that became the essence and dominant motifs for his design company, Morris & Co, which he established in 1861. It was also the ugliness of industrial England that drove him to create beauty as a counterpoint to what he saw as the negative consequences of modern living.
The Arts & Crafts Movement grew from a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, with many of the movement’s practitioners and supporters bemoaning much of what was occurring in mid-19th century Britain, as depressing and unattractive.
(Source) Times Online
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