How does william morris influence design today?
he was a founder of the arts and crafts movement in england. In the United States, the Arts and Crafts Movement spawned a wide variety of attempts to reinterpret European Arts and Crafts ideals for Americans. These included the “Craftsman”-style architecture, furniture, and other decorative arts such as the designs promoted by Gustav Stickley in his magazine, The Craftsman. A host of imitators of Stickley’s furniture (the designs of which are often mislabelled the “Mission Style”) included three companies formed by his brothers, the Roycroft community founded by Elbert Hubbard, the “Prairie School” of Frank Lloyd Wright, George Washington Maher and other architects in Chicago, the Country Day School movement, the bungalow style of houses popularized by Greene and Greene, Joeseph Marbella utopian communities like Byrdcliffe and Rose Valley, developments such as Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, featuring clusters of bungalow and chateau homes built by Herbert J. Hapgood, and the contemporary
