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MORRIS& CO Refined Gentlemen Travel Wallet
Journey in refined style with this travel wallet, containing individual pockets for ID, currency and tickets, embossed with Acanthus, from the William Morris Archives.
Refinement meets artisan craftsmanship and heritage design in this eclectic collection of Morris & Co mens travel accessories and grooming. Regarded by some as the greatest designer and one of the most outstanding figures of the arts and crafts movement, William Morris was also a poet, artist, philosopher, typographer and political theorist.
ABOUT WILLIAM MORRIS:
Regarded by some as the greatest designer and one of the most outstanding figures of the arts and crafts movement, William Morris was also a poet, artist, philosopher, typographer and political theorist.
ABOUT William Morris’ ACANTHUS DESIGN:
Acanthus is an early Morris pattern and no pattern is more iconic William Morris. These tiles based on the original William Morris 1874 textile pattern, first manufactured as wallpaper by Jeffrey and Co. in 1875.
Morris described Acanthus as a “luxurious” pattern, an appropriate description since early on, Morris textiles were only available to the wealthy class. Acanthus later found its way to printed wallpaper and eventually to large pattern printed wallpaper, printed at Merton Abbey. These larger patterns were slower to be well-received by the middle classes than the textiles had been by artistocratic and artsy circles.
By his death in 1896, Morris had transformed the way way the middle classes decorated their homes.
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