"[The exhibition] William Morris & Art from the Islamic World is curated by Rowan Bain, principal curator of the William Morris Gallery, and Qaisra M. Khan, Curator of Islamic Art,".--William Morris ...
May Morris, youngest daughter of influential designer William Morris, was one of the leading female contributors to the Arts and Crafts Movement. She ran the embroidery department of her father's ...
While the noted Arts and Crafts designer’s patterns have never gone out of production, they are enjoying a resurgence in popularity. A leading figure of the British Arts and Crafts movement, William ...
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful,” English designer William Morris famously advised in the 19th century. More than a century later, that advice ...
Kelmscott Press may have only operated for seven years at the end of the 19th century, but its legacy as a high-water mark in British printing endures. It was a late career passion project from the ...
A century ago, the Japanese critic Sōetsu Yanagi, with the potters Shōji Hamada and Kawai Kanjirō, coined the term Mingei (“art of the people”), an elision of minshūteki kōgei (“ordinary people’s ...
It is the first exhibition to examine how the natural world shaped the art and radical vision of the Morris family.
When we think of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States, Brooklyn seldom comes to mind as a hotbed of A&C style. We think of suburban bungalows, the Midwest and California, not the city.