“Tiny pimpernel flowers punctuate a pattern of giant flower heads. The blue colorway (as opposed to the yellow alternative) furnished William Morris’s own dining room at Kelmscott House on the ...

To William Morris, ‘the most important production of art’ was ... The cavernous dining room was papered with Pimpernel, a design of 1876. An oriental carpet — too precious to walk on with hobnailed ...

A scrolling acanthus. These are just a few of the nature-inspired motifs William Morris, the designer, artist, and thinker, conceptualized in the latter half of the 19th century. Today ...