William Morris

: This page is about William Morris, the writer, designer and socialist. For other meanings, see William Morris (disambiguation).

Business career

Morris left Oxford to join an architecture firm, but soon found himself drawn more and more to the decorative arts. He and Webb built Red House at Bexleyheath in Kent, Morris' wedding gift to Jane. It was here his design ideas began to take physical shape. (In honour of Morris' connection with Bexleyheath, a bust of Morris was added to an original niche in the brick clocktower in the town centre in 1996.)

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Decorative arts - Red House - Bexleyheath - 1996

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In 1861, he founded the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. with Gabriel Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Madox Brown and Philip Webb. Throughout his life, he continued to work in his own firm, although the firm changed names. Its most famous incarnation was as Morris and Company. His designs are still sold today under licences given to Sanderson and Sons and Liberty of London.

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1861 - Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. - Morris and Company - Sanderson and Sons - Liberty of London

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