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William Morris commissioned Philip Webb to design Red House in 1859. It was Webb’s first independent architectural work and Morris’s first and only commission. In 1860, after one year of construction, it was complete. In his design, Webb looked to the vernacular buildings of the Sussex and Kentish Weald and chose red brick for the fabric ...
14 de oct. de 2023 · Premeditated in 1859 by the designer William Morris and the architect Philip Webb, the house was to function as a family home for William. Construction of the Red House was finalized in 1860. It is renowned as one of the most significant examples of nineteenth-century British structural designs still in existence.
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The only house commissioned, created and lived in by William Morris, founder of the Arts & Crafts movement, Red House is a building of extraordinary architectural and social significance. Designed by Philip Webb and completed in 1860, it was described by Edward Burne-Jones as 'the beautifullest place on earth'.
Red House is a significant Arts and Crafts building located in the town of Bexleyheath in Southeast London, England. Co-designed in 1859 by the architect Philip Webb and the designer William Morris, it was created to serve as a family home for the latter, with construction being completed in 1860. It is recognised as one of the most important ...
Craftsmanship and community. Red House was the home he designed in Bexleyheath, a southeastern suburb of London, England, for his family with the assistance of Philip Webb. Webb and Morris met while working in London for the architect G. E. Street. Webb would go on to be one of the major architects of the Gothic Revival movement in England.
William Morris commissions the house. In 1859, newly married William Morris commissioned his friend, the young architect Philip Webb, to build him a house. Morris and Webb designed Red House without unneccessary decoration, instead choosing to champion utility of design; this would become a princple of the Arts and Crafts movement.
In Western architecture: From the 19th to the early 20th century …to build for Morris the Red House (1859–60) at Bexleyheath near London. Little in this building is overtly Gothic—rather, it is intended to evoke the solidity and sound craftsmanship of medieval architecture, an ideal he had adopted from a greatly neglected architect, William White, and one that was to be…
