International studio (61.1917)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition


ONE OF A SERIES OF DESIGNS FOR MINSTRELS. BY
WILLIAM MORRIS
(By courtesy of Messrs. Morris and Co., Ltd.)

capital. “ This has always been my great
difficulty; we have never had a hundred
pounds to call our own,” said Warington
Taylor, the excellent manager and man of
business of the combination, in a letter to
Dante Rossetti. There were difficulties, too,
with Morris because he wished to sell the
products of the firm too cheaply. “ Morris and
I,” said Taylor, “ never get hot with one
another save on the subject of price. He
is always for a low price ; seeing the amount
of work we do it is absurd. We must have
a long price.”
The work of Philip Webb, who was a partner
in the original Morris firm, was represented in
the Retrospective Room by the mace in silver
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and enamel (81) designed by him for the Univer-
sity of Birmingham. But Webb’s reputation
rests principally on his work as an architect, in
which capacity he designed, among many other
interesting buildings, the house built by the
late Vai Prinsep, R.A., in Holland Park Road,
and the Red House built by Morris at Upton,
near Bexley. Webb afterwards designed an
extension of the Red House, when it was
proposed that Morris and Burne-Jones and their
respective families should live under one roof,
but this plan was never executed.
Of Burne-Jones, one of the pioneers of the
Arts and Crafts movement, the Society was
fortunate enough to obtain a notable work
in the shape of the large King Arthur in Avalon


ONE OF A SERIES OF DESIGNS FOR MINSTRELS. BY
WILLIAM MORRIS
(By courtesy of Messrs. Morris and Co., Ltd.}