Identifier: lifewilliammorris01mack (find matches)
Title: The life of William Morris
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mackail, J. W. (John William), 1859-1945
Subjects: Morris, William, 1834-1896
Publisher: London : Longman, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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which filledthe external angle of the L on the upper floor. Itlooked by its main end window northwards towards theroad and the open country ; and a projecting oriel inthe western side overlooked the long bowling green,which ran, encircled with apple trees, close under thelength of that wing. The decoration of this room, andof the staircase by which it was reached, was to be thework of several years for Morris and his friends : andhe boldly announced that he meant to make it the mostbeautiful room in England. But through the wholehouse, inside and out, the same ideal standard was, sofar as possible, to be kept up. It was at this point that the problem of decorationbegan. The bricklaying and carpentering could be exe-cuted directly from the architects designs. But whenthe shell of the house was completed, and stood clean andbare among its apple trees, everything, or nearly every-thing, that was to furnish or decorate it had to be like-wise designed and made. Only in a few isolated cases
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RED HOUSE, UPTON. jet. 26) WILLIAM MORRIS H3 —such as Persian carpets, and blue china or delft forvessels of household use—was there anything then to bebought ready-made that Morris could be content with inhis own house. Not a chair, or table, or bed ; not acloth or paper hanging for the walls; nor tiles to linefireplaces or passages; nor a curtain or a candlestick;nor a jug to hold wine or a glass to drink it out of, buthad to be reinvented, one might almost say, to escapethe flat ugliness of the current article. The great paintedsettle from Red Lion Square was taken and set up inthe drawing-room, the top of it being railed in so as toform a small music gallery. Much of the furniture wasspecially designed by Webb and executed under his eye:the great oak dining-table, other tables, chairs, cupboards,massive copper candlesticks, fire-dogs, and table glass ofextreme beauty. The plastered walls and ceilings weretreated with simple designs in tempera, and for the halland main living r

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