书名：William Morris’s Flowers (Victoria and Albert Museum) /威廉·莫里斯的花朵
定价：135.0
ISBN：9780500480458
作者：Rowan Bain
版次：1
出版时间：2019-09

内容提要：

ISBN：9780500480458 

书名：William Morris’s Flowers (Victoria and Albert Museum) 

作者：Rowan Bain 

出版：Thames and Hudson，2019 

装帧：精装，144页，120幅插图 

语种：英文 

开本：17×19cm

A beautiful and informative gift book devoted to designs by William Morris that incorporate flowers―a central motif in his oeuvre and one that played a part in the majority of his designs.

The leading figure of the Arts and Crafts Movement, William Morris (1834–1896) is one of the best-known and most popular of all British designers. A passionate advocate of craftsmanship over mass production, he designed a huge variety of objects, but it is his spectacular carpet, fabric, and wallpaper patterns that have continued to capture the popular imagination and influence interior designers and the decorative arts. Around six hundred such designs are attributed to Morris, most of which are based on nature, including trees, plants, and flowers.

This beautifully designed, accessibly priced gift book offers a wealth of designs by Morris where flowers are the principal motif. The text traces the origins of Morris’s flower-based designs: his own gardens at the Red House in Kent; sixteenth- and seventeenth-century herbals; illuminated medieval manuscripts; late medieval and Renaissance tapestries; and the range of decorated objects, particularly from the Islamic world, that Morris studied at the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Authored by Rowan Bain, senior curator at the William Morris Gallery, and lavishly illustrated with over one hundred color illustrations, William Morris’s Flowers will both inform and delight.

一本精美而内容丰富的礼品书，专门介绍威廉·莫里斯 （William Morris） 的设计，其中融入了花朵——这是他作品中的中心主题，也是他大部分设计中的重要主题。

工艺美术运动的领军人物威廉·莫里斯（William Morris，1834-1896 年）是英国最著名和最受欢迎的设计师之一。他热衷于倡导手工艺而不是大规模生产，设计了各种各样的物品，但正是他壮观的地毯、织物和墙纸图案继续吸引着大众的想象力，并影响着室内设计师和装饰艺术。大约 600 种此类设计归功于莫里斯，其中大部分基于自然，包括树木、植物和花卉。

这本设计精美、价格实惠的礼品书提供了 Morris 的丰富设计，其中鲜花是主要主题。文字追溯了莫里斯以花卉为基础的设计的起源：他在肯特郡红房子的自己的花园;16 世纪和 17 世纪的草药;插图中世纪手稿;中世纪晚期和文艺复兴时期的挂毯;以及莫里斯在南肯辛顿博物馆（现为维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆）研究的一系列装饰物品，特别是来自伊斯兰世界的装饰物品。

威廉·莫里斯 （William Morris） 的《花》由威廉·莫里斯画廊 （William Morris Gallery） 的高级策展人罗文·贝恩 （Rowan Bain） 撰写，并配有一百多幅彩色插图，既能提供信息，又能带来愉悦。