Morris’s dream house was sold, and he never returned.Įmery Walker. Unable to balance life in the countryside with work in central London Morris, his wife and his two daughters lived here for just five years. (later Morris & Co.) was conceived and established. ![]() The house saw many of Arts and Crafts followers and members of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood visit, some for weeks at a time, and it was here that ‘The Firm’ Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. ![]() Morris purchased the property, then in Kent, as a rural haven for him and his wife Jane, with close links to central London. The only example which he commissioned, created and lived in, Red House in Bexleyheath is packed full of original Arts and Crafts features, furniture and furnishing, as well as boasting paintings, stained glass and embroidery by Morris’s Pre-Raphaelite friends, including Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ![]() The Red House, Bexleyheath © Julian Walker (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)Ī figure very much at the centre of the movement, it’s impossible to talk about the Arts and Crafts without mentioning William Morris and the properties he lived in and imprinted with his eye for beauty and head for functionality.
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