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Red House
This hand made print measures 5 3/8" x 8
1/3", the edition of 50 prints on Fawn, Stonehenge 100% rag paper
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Red House, Bexleyheath, South East London, is of
international significance in the development of the Arts and Crafts
movement.
Commissioned by William Morris and
designed by Philip Webb, two of the founders of the Arts and Crafts
movement.
The house is a landmark in the history of domestic
architecture and the garden inspired Morris’s early designs of
wallpaper and fabric.
Completed in 1859, Morris lived there with his wife Jane for five years.
Red House was designed to express a set of
social, architectural and cultural values drawn from history.
It was
Webb’s first private commission and with its garden was planned as a
single entity.
Morris believed that the garden should ‘clothe’ the
house linking it with the countryside which then surrounded it.
The
house was constructed of warm red brick, under a steep red-tiled roof,
with an emphasis on natural materials.
The sense of space and light was
a radical departure from the high Victorian style of the day.
Much of
the interior was decorated by Morris and Webb with Rossetti and
Burne-Jones.