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Garden of William Morris
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William Morris (1834-1896) was one of the most famous Englishmen of the 19th century. He was an artist, a poet, a politician, the leader of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the founder of a company producing textiles, furniture and stained glass. Morris thought the Middle Ages to be the golden age of architecture, arts and crafts and dreamed that the whole England would become garden, where people would live in beautiful villages and all the objects in their lives would be pieces of art.
For Morris, an old country house, Kelmscott Manor, was an ideal of country life, wonderful in its innocence. The garden around the manor was the source of inspiration for famous textiles and tapestries. It combined an old-fashioned formality and picturesque quality, ordinary English trees and flowers grew there and there was a plain summer house in the corner of it. We wanted to capture the spirit of harmony and beauty incarnated in the works by William Morris and to create a garden that could have caught his fancy.