Yesterday, April 20th, was a momentous day for the Arts & Crafts Hammersmith team, as we reopened Emery Walker’s House after an 18 month closure, welcoming visitors from near and as far afield as Australia!After so many months of hard work, packing, unpacking, cleaning, cataloguing, creating a new exhibition space so the House would be ready for visitors, it was a proud and very satisfying moment to see just how much our first visitors appreciated the tours, hosted by Emery Walker’s House’s…
Archive Volunteer, Molly Richards, is part of the team archiving the Papers of Sir Emery Walker, Engraver, Photographer, Printer, Typographer. Some great treasures have been uncovered in the archive – which you can soon discover for yourself as the Papers of Sir Emery Walker, Engraver, Photographer, Printer, Typographer will soon be available as a digital resource on www.emerywalker.org.uk.Elizabeth de Haas played a very important part in the history of Emery Walker’s House and it was thanks to…
More musings from Member 7432, Sweden’s sole member of the William Morris SocietyDear Readers,The other week I found myself at an antiquarian book fair in Stockholm. I was looking for something Morris, but found a 500 year old German book instead. Suddenly I understood the book collector William Morris more and his intense love for handcrafted manuscripts and getting back to the roots in bookmaking. Here it all was: hand pressed paper, the best ink possible and a lovely, timeless sense of…
The Archivist on the Arts & Crafts Hammersmith Project, Michele Losse, has been working over the past few months, along with some fantastic volunteers, on a project to catalogue the archive at Emery Walker’s House. In this blog Michele discusses the project and some of the exciting finds in the Papers of Sir Emery Walker, Engraver, Photographer, Printer, Typographer… Michele Losse, Project ArchivistAs part of the Heritage Lottery Fund funding for the Arts and Crafts Hammersmith Project, we’ve…
Hello again!This is Petter, the one and only Swedish member of The William Morris Society.In my last blog I wrote about how my parents introduced me to William Morris. This got me musing on other British cultural icons when I was growing up and ways they connected to Morris.My first real lesson in English came from The Beatles, you know: “Hello, Goodbye” and “Yes It Is”; what more do you need? ”Why don’t we do it in the Road” was another favourite.Question: did the Beatles have any deeper…
Meet Petter Eklund. Petter is Sweden’s only member of The William Morris Society.Dear Reader,My name is Petter Eklund. I’m the proud member 7432 of The William Morris Society which I joined quite recently. I’m living and working as a freelance writer in Stockholm, Sweden and I am, right now, the only Swedish member of the society. Becoming a member, I started to order quite a few of the society’s wonderful small books of The Kelmscott lectures. They seem to come directly from some wunderkammer…
The stories of the people who lived in 7 Hammersmith Terrace and Kelmscott House are fascinating, rich and varied. Not just the lives of two prestigious men of the Arts & Crafts movement, Emery Walker & William Morris, but the lives of their families and friends, means that these houses are full of stories collected over more than a century. We embarked on a creative writing project to discover and bring these stories to life with young people from the area. Teachers and students from Fulham…
As an introduction to her practice, Allyson, who has been restoring the handblocked Morris wallpapers at Emery Walker’s House and Kelmscott House, has produced this video. It describes how she researches and then recreates the magnificent reproduction wallpapers for which she is best known.Video copyright © Allyson McDermott Studiowww.allysonmcdermott.com…
We are thrilled with our fantastic new logo for Emery Walker’s House (see above). We wanted it to be visually beautiful and encapsulate the many themes of Emery Walker’s House, such as the Arts & Crafts aesthetic and Walker’s work as a typographer. In this blog the designer, Simon Loxley, takes us through the process of creating the logo, working with The Emery Walker Trust to find the perfect design. Although I tried a couple of early versions without it, it seemed an obvious choice, and a…
Allyson McDermott is one of the world’s leading authorities on conserving, recreating and hanging historic wallpapers. Part artist, part scientist, part sleuth, she peels away the layers of history for clients including The National Trust, Historic Royal Palaces and now Arts & Crafts Hammersmith, for which she was commissioned to work on the papers at Emery Walker’s House at 7 Hammersmith Terrace and at William Morris’ home at Kelmscott House, 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith.Her practice offers a…
