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    • Monday, 18 April, 2022
      Architecture
      William Morris’s ‘heaven on earth’: Kelmscott Manor reopens

      The poet and designer hated modernity, yet this Elizabethan farmhouse was pivotal to the history of Modernism

      Water Willow by Charles Fairfax Murray (1895) a faithful copy of the 1871 original by DG Rossetti, hangs above the fireplace, with pastel portraits to the side of May Morris aged 9 and Jenny Morris aged 10 by DG Rossetti
    • Friday, 16 November, 2018
      Gardens
      How William Morris cultivated an artistic nature

      The ideas of the Arts & Crafts movement’s co-founder extended to the nativistic surroundings of his celebrated homes

      Kelmscott Manor and gardens with rose bushes leading to the front door
    • Friday, 10 November, 2017
      Life & Arts
      May Morris, the overlooked star of the Arts and Crafts movement

      ‘I’m a remarkable woman,’ wrote William Morris’s daughter, and she was right

      ‘Honeysuckle’ wallpaper design by May Morris (1883)
    • Friday, 24 June, 2016
      FT Magazine
      Lives entwined: the genius of William Morris and Mariano Fortuny

      AS Byatt’s latest book is an exploration of what the two great polymaths of the arts had in common — and what set them apart

    • Sunday, 28 February, 2016
      Small Talk - CompaniesKate Burgess
      ‘Ovaltine Index’ showcases a UK heritage

      Small, older brands still manage to create a warm feeling

      Loaded from Pictures:ARCHIVE COLOUR:BOB COLLIER: on 081002
    • Monday, 5 October, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Giambattista Valli SS16 show report Paris Fashion Week

      Left Bank-bohemianism inspires a portrait of sloe-eyed, mist-tinged exoticism

      Giambattista Valli Spring/Summer 2016
    • Wednesday, 18 February, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Marc by Marc Jacobs — New York Fashion Week AW15 show report

      Katie Hillier and Luella Bartley stage a positive protest — with William Morris and punk

      Marc Jacob's 2015 autumn-winter collection
    • Friday, 24 October, 2014
      Life & Arts
      More exhibitions including Rembrandt and Magnum photos

      Also William Morris, Eric Fischl and Jake and Dinos Chapman

    • Tuesday, 14 October, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, National Portrait Gallery, London – review

      Morris’s life and legacy are traced through this compact, appealing display of objects and portraits

      William Morris by G.F. Watt
    • Friday, 21 September, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Bricks and morality

      Two 19th-century homes that, in their attempt to escape the modern city, had an immeasurable effect on modernism

      William Morris's Red House in Bexleyheath, south-east
    • Friday, 22 June, 2012
      FT Magazine
      Barometer: Design

      Stock up on your personal menagerie, for big and little children

    • Wednesday, 2 May, 2012
      US & Canadian companies
      Silver Lake takes stake in talent agency
    • Friday, 20 April, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Paper trail

      Wallpaper is undergoing a revamp as the demand for period patterns and intricate designs increases

    • Monday, 16 April, 2012
      Life & Arts
      Pre-Raphaelites out to shock at Tate
    • Friday, 30 March, 2012
      Susie Boyt
      Impertinent inquisitors

      Teachers like to tell us things, but they also take great pleasure in making us reveal embarrassing details of our lives

    • Saturday, 10 March, 2012
      Life & Arts
      To preserve and protect

      Safeguarding a nation’s heritage can make a bold political statement, while a single-building project is often a personal labour of love

    • Saturday, 3 March, 2012
      World
      We live in the new Dark Ages, aka the Migration Period
    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2011
      ReviewWork & Careers
      Rewriting the Hollywood script

      Talent agency chiefs say content is more important than ever

    • Friday, 11 November, 2011
      Life & Arts
      The William Morris of Nepal

      Architect John Sanday, the Global Heritage Fund’s regional director for Asia, has put a British stamp on his restoration of monuments in Kathmandu

    • Tuesday, 4 October, 2011
      UK retail results
      Walker Greenbank rolls out 13% profit rise

      Fabrics manufacturer boosted by exports

    • Friday, 16 September, 2011
      Life & Arts
      Drawing, design and the art of craft

      Since William Morris’s floral patterns, fabrics have been enriched by generations of British artists

    • Friday, 9 September, 2011
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Last Pre-Raphaelite

      Fiona MacCarthy’s captivating biography makes the case for Edward Burne-Jones as a painter for our times

    • Friday, 13 May, 2011
      Life & Arts
      Still in print
    • Friday, 1 April, 2011
      Life & Arts
      Beauty queens

      The aesthetic movement marked a key shift in English sensibility. The FT’s art critic visits the V&A’s flamboyant new show

    • Sunday, 23 January, 2011
      Business education
      Skills reforms hark back to guild system
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