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Google William Morris 1834-96 and the results you will get are all wallpaper
and fabrics, still being made and still for sale. He was a great decorator but he was also much more than that, an artist, poet, novelist, entrepreneur, all round designer, craftsman, printer-publisher, politician and visionary. His vision was of a new society in which manufacturing was returned to the craft workshop, where people found joy in making things of beauty, utility and quality. Cities and factories would be demolished as people returned to their rural communities where they would rediscover brotherhood, mutual endeavour and self reliance. It was a vision based on a romantic view of the medieval economy - craftsmanship, guilds, self governing small towns and common ownership. His furniture, like the paintings of his friend Burne-Jones is an imagined and idealised medievalism. Furniture to be craftsman made, not mass produced, solid, honest and decorated with paint or with a few rustic motifs. I have been drawing some plans to make a William Morris table taken from photographs of a surviving piece. I haven't seen the piece so I can't be totally certain that I have the overall dimensions correct but I am pretty sure I have it close. I suppose it is possible that the original is 30" high - a table you could sit at, but that would make the top 3" thick. I have drawn it 18" high with a 2" thick top 36" in diameter which I think is very likely how it is. A table for my house needs to be smaller still so I will probably scale it down further and make it 24" diameter when I come to build it. It appears to be made of clear knot free deal. Tim W |
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