Emery Walker's Arts & Crafts house open to the public

you [Music] hello and welcome to Emory Walker's house come on Henri Walker's house is the most authentic and best-preserved arts-and-crafts house in the whole britain the reason is it's most authentic is because this is exactly how it looked the memories day we have photographic evidence to prove it we also have photographic evidence to show what women Morrises houses look like and it was very much like this an eclectic mix of eras here we have William Arthur those medieval 17th century chair we have a mix of ceramics from North Africa and Europe where the walkers traveled frequently but then we also have the genuine arts and crafts items themselves we've got Philip Webb furniture Philip Webb was a very close friend of Emery Walker and he left him most of his belongings [Music] some of the most important things in this room are this beautiful bird hanging it is avaya my third hanging you also can see the hand blocked willow wallpaper [Music] Henry Walker was an eminent Victorian typographer printer and photographer and he was a key member of the Arts and Crafts movement and has been called the father of the private press movement and he established his love to play miss Cobden Sampson so the good story about the daughter presses were something about it being tipped into the river from Hammersmith bridge the Dubs crest was named after does pass just along the river and it was to produce the book beautiful it was all about the type and so when you look at one of their most beautiful books which was revival you will notice is a quite a rare amount of white space for those times and the first page has this extremely long eye in the beginning it's a long red eye with black type in the most beautiful ink against white data and at the time this was very extraordinarily beautiful collector's item instantly there was a gentleman's understanding that when Captain Sanderson's died he would leave the press and the matrices to his partner Henry Walker but at some point Cobden Sanderson resolved that this was not to be and he went under cover of darkness for it's estimated 170 trips all the way to Hammersmith bridge in order to hippos at Hammersmith bridge over a ton of tight Emery Walker was good friends with William Morris wasn't he here is the best known arts and crafts polymath but also they both had daughters so Mae Morris was a good friend of Dorothy Morris so just tell me about the relationship between two families Henry Walker was - William Isis best friends in fact the last six years of William Arthur's life they met every single day possibly the most poignant item in the whole room is a little shrine to William Morris and if you take out a draw from that cabinet over there you'll find there are some extremely personal items that belong to Morris his glasses some of his work tencel's a woodcut from the cams cut press and also a lock of his hair which was snipped off on his death-bed on the crest of Emory Walker if you look around this house you can see that the Morris family and the Walker family was very close Dorothy Walker with Emory Walker's daughter she was close friends with Mae Morris who lived next door number 8 for 30 years you which is Dorothy's bedroom you can see her all around her knickknacks on the dressing-table and yet to be revealed bed because it has got one of the treasures of the house it was very beautiful embroidered bed cover it's a design that it's very similar to one it comes got Manor it's by Mae Morris who was a very esteemed needlewoman and designer and extremely beautiful and so difficult to make this kind of work especially on quite fun world usually from silk or something like that so to be able to get this fine detail takes a basic gold cross you we had to count the whole of the house about 6000 isolation system storage catalog if and now we've brought it all back for the aid of some fantastic specialists and amazing Vanderpool and clears one of the specialists we've had worked in the house if the wallpaper specialist and his name's Adrian McDermott and he's upstairs working on wallpapers now this is the original Willie Morris wallpaper and this is our reproduction that we're actually we were created to actually fill in the hatch that's actually been missed their missing and then I will surely be patching in the exact area that the things on the wall [Music] you [Music]

Channel: TheChiswickCalendar

Views: 44,609

Rating: 4.95086 out of 5

Keywords: Emery Walker, William Morris, Philip Webb, May Morris, Dorothy Walker, Bernard Shaw, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Jane Morris, Chiswick, Hammersmith, Arts & Crafts movement, Victorian

Id: Ase1yt45pv0

Length: 7min 13sec (433 seconds)

Published: Mon May 01 2017