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   Why did William Morris create his own furniture?

   • William Morris’s frustration at being unable to find furnishings to his taste led him to create his own. Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (known to its partners as ‘The Firm’) was the decorative arts company founded by Morris and his close acquaintances in 1861.

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   Who designed Morris furniture?

   • In the early years of the Firm almost all the furniture was designed by Philip Webb, although Warington Taylor had tried to interest Morris in a less uncompromising style, he met with little success and it was only when Morris's interests were engaged elsewhere that a new style was introduced by Webb's assistant, George Jack.

   Morris and Company, 1861-1939 - The Victorian Web

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   Where did Morris & Co manufacture furniture?

   • As demand increased furniture was manufactured in workshops at Great Ormond Yard, behind Queen Square. In 1877 Morris and Co. opened a shop at 264 Oxford Street [The Furniture Gazette, 3 March 1877]; this premise was renumbered 449 in 1882.

   Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., later Morris & Co. (1861-1944)

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   Who founded Morris & Company?

   • Morris & Company, A Brief Sketch of the Morris Movement and of the Firm Founded by William Morris to Carry Out His Designs and the Industries Revived or Started by Him. Written to Commemorate the Firm's Fiftieth Anniversary in June 1911. Privately printed at the Chiswick Press for Morris & Company, 1911.

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   Who invented the 'Morris chair'?

   • Ajustable Chair (Morris Chair) Click on thumbnail for larger image. The 'Morris' chair was also based on a country prototype, found in this instance by George Warington Taylor in the workshop of a carpenter named Ephraim Colman at Hurstmonceaux in Sussex. A description and sketch of the chair was sent to Webb in about 1866.

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   Who owns Morris & Co?

   • Morris took sole control of the firm in 1874, and it was then officially renamed Morris & Co. He opened new showrooms in Oxford Street in 1877 and the following year took a lease on Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, which like his home in Queen Square acted as a ‘semi-public showroom’.

   Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., later Morris & Co. (1861-1944)

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   Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861–1875) was a furnishings and decorative arts manufacturer and retailer founded by the artist and designer William Morris with friends from the Pre-Raphaelites.

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   During his brief apprenticeship to George Edmund Street in Oxford, Morris met Webb, who at the time was Street’s chief assistant. Webb’s furniture designs date from 1858 and his role in Morris, Marshall & Faulkner & Co. and then Morris and Co. was integral to the firm’s early success.

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   The official home of Morris & Co. Lovingly crafted since 1861. Decorate your home in authentic patterns from the rich archive of William Morris and his collective.

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   The range was made and sold from 1869 until the 1920s and was inspired by a late-Georgian country chair found in Sussex. The chairs were most likely designed by Philip Webb. As well as being commercially successful, the chairs were also used by partners of Morris & Co. in their own homes.

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8. wmgallery.org.uk › collection › about-william-morrisAbout William Morris - William Morris Gallery

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   In April 1861, Morris founded Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., with six partners: Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Webb, Ford Madox Brown, Charles Faulkner, and Peter Paul Marshall. After experiencing initial success, the Firm saw a severe drop in profits due to an economic recession in the late 1860s.

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   Philip Webb designed furniture and assisted the shaky finances of the Firm by persuading his architectural clients to employ Morris and Co. as decorators. The sideboard dating from 1861 with its hooded canopy was one of the most characteristic of the Firm's early designs, and echoes the form of the hooded settles which were made for 'Red House ...

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    Morris & Co. William Morris’s frustration at being unable to find furnishings to his taste led him to create his own. Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (known to its partners as ‘The Firm’) was the decorative arts company founded by Morris and his close acquaintances in 1861.