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5 days ago · William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, [1] writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.
2 days ago · Charles Quennell, born 1872, had worked in a carpenter’s shop before becoming an architect and was ‘a staunch supporter of the post-Ruskinian Arts and Crafts movement’ (and indeed had met Marjorie in 1903 at the Junior Art Workers’ Guild, an organization founded to advance the goals of the movement). 33 J. Ernest Phythian, responsible for Manchester’s The Story of Buildings and How ...
17 hours ago · Nothing is ever quite certain. ― Jan Morris. Venice is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. ― Erica Jong. The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury has this inscription: “Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.”. ― Robert Burton.
1 day ago · Red House boasts original features and furniture by Morris and Philip Webb, stained glass and paintings by Burne-Jones and embroidery by Jane and Elizabeth Burden. Coupled with bold architecture and a garden designed to 'clothe the house', they add up to a fascinating and rewarding place to visit.
1 day ago · In Morris’s reading of Marx, indebted also to John Ruskin’s esthetics, it is the degradation of work under industrial capitalism as well as poverty and bourgeois oppression that figure as the chief evils of the old order.
2 days ago · 11 Tristan’s oblivion is the main object of Máire Fedelma Cross’s book, which pays much attention to her re-discovery. In 1892, the Free University of Brussels suspended Reclus from lecturing geography and he contributed to the founding of the New University of Brussels in 1894.
4 days ago · He recovered the taste for medieval buildings, especially in England, with the works of John Ruskin (1819-1900), William Morris (1834-1896) and Edward Pugin (1834-1875). In France, however, The works reflected the tastes of the new bourgeoisie resulting from the Revolutionwhich adopted the train as its main symbol of modernity.
