We began in London, where Morris spent the greater part of his life and where outstanding examples of his work can be seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum and at Holy Trinity Church, Chelsea (known as the ‘Cathedral of the Arts & Crafts’). Our tour traced many of the events and locations associated with Morris’s hugely prolific career, while also examining his fruitful collaborations with many of the leading artists, designers and architects of his time and his subsequent influence on later craft-workers. During his lifetime, his lectures, writing and practical example gave birth to the Arts & Crafts Movement, which advocated the vigorous regeneration of handicrafts and an emphatic rejection of industrialism and commercialism. William Morris (1834-1896), arguably the greatest designer-craftsman that England has ever produced, remains a perennially topical influence – not only in the field of arts and crafts but also as a pioneer of conservation and a visionary social thinker.
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