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The period between 1876 and 1882 was the most productive for Morris; he created sixteen different wallpaper designs. In his wallpapers of this period, he reverted to more naturalistic themes, somewhat less three-dimensional than his earlier work, but with an exceptional harmony and rhythm, as in his designs Poppy (1885) and Acorn.
Screen with embroidered panels, 1885-1910, designed by John Henry Dearle V&A Museum no. CIRC.848-1956. Dearle was born in Camden Town, north London, in 1859. [2] He began his career as an assistant in Morris & Co.'s retail showroom in Oxford Street in 1878, [3] and then transferred to the company's glass painting workshop, where he worked mornings and studied design in the afternoons. [1]
Wallpapers can come plain as "lining paper" to help cover uneven surfaces and minor wall defects, "textured", plain with a regular repeating pattern design, or with a single non-repeating large design carried over a set of sheets. The smallest wallpaper rectangle that can be tiled to form the whole pattern is known as the pattern repeat.
In the field of textile design, Morris revived a number of dead techniques, [268] and insisted on the use of good quality raw materials, almost all natural dyes, and hand processing. [269] He also observed the natural world first hand to gain a basis for his designs, [270] and insisted on learning the techniques of production prior to producing ...
In the early 2000s, Signature Prints made a conscious decision to promote Broadhurst's designs overseas, specifically in the UK. This effort, coupled with an international resurgence of interest in wallpaper, greatly increased the designer's profile and led to distribution deals being struck for both the UK and the US in 2003.
Frosty Morning is an 1813 landscape painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner.Based on a sketch made when Turner was journeying to Yorkshire and the coach paused. [1] It depicts a bright but frosty early morning in winter and group of men clearing a ditch at the side of the road.
Wall street mostly gained early as investors eyed an onslaught of earnings reports. At 10:05 A.M. ET, the broad S&P 500 rose 0.13%, or 7.99 points, to 6,069.47; the blue chip Dow was down 0.034% ...
Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Japanese: 凱風快晴, Hepburn: Gaifū kaisei, literally South Wind, Clear Sky), also known as Red Fuji (赤富士, Akafuji), [1] is a woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849), part of his Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, dating from c. 1830 to 1832. [2]