William Morris at La Piscine, Roubaix

Published on 18 October 2022, by Sophie Humann

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The father of design and inspirer of the Arts & Crafts movement , he dreamed of beauty even in the most common household objects. La Piscine, in Roubaix, pays tribute to him in English style.

William Morris (dessinateur) et Jeffrey & Co (fabricant), The Pimpernel, vers 1876,... William Morris at La Piscine, Roubaix

William Morris (dessinateur) et Jeffrey & Co (fabricant), The Pimpernel, vers 1876, papier continu à pâte mécanique, fond vert brossé à la main, impression à la planche de bois en six couleurs, 70 x 56,6 cm (détail), Paris, musée des Arts décoratifs.
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Sylvette Botella-Gaudichon, curator of the applied arts collections at La Piscine in Roubaix, likes to remind us that a successful exhibition must tell a story. With William Morris, we'd have to tell twenty of them, given the complexity and abundance of the life of this idealist, born in Essex on March 24 , 1834. Poet, novelist, textile designer, architect, embroiderer, printer, publisher, socialist, feminist and environmentalist before his time, the initiator of the British Arts & Crafts movement (see the article Arts & Crafts…

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