Google honors the famous designer fabrics, artist and writer William Morris

The famous artist and writer, William Morris (William Morris), has today the honor of, after the… Google’s giving the current doodle, on the occasion of the 182 years since the birth of.
William Morris was an English designer of textiles, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the Brotherhood of Προραφαηλιτών and movement, Arts and Crafts, which flourished in the 1880’s -1910.
William Morris was born on 24 March 1834 in Ουόλθαμστοου England and died on 3 October 1896 (at the age of 62 years) in London.
William Morris Founded an artistic company together with Edward Burne – Jones and the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which inspired me significantly to the decoration of churches and houses during the 20th century.
As an author, illustrator and medievalist, has contributed to the establishment of fantasy literature and was a direct influence on postwar authors such as John Ronald Ρούελ Tolkien. It also contributed to significantly to the revival of the art of the cloth and traditional methods, as well as one of the founding members of the society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, an important player for the protection of historic buildings in the United Kingdom.
William Morris wrote and published poetry, literature and translations of ancient and medieval texts for a large part of his life.
The movement Arts & Crafts
A aesthetic and artistic power, which began in the 1860’s in England and has renewed the design, leading to a reconsideration of the decorative arts in Europe, America and Australia. It was a reaction to the uninspired uniformity of mass reproduction, that brought the industrial revolution. I
The company operates as a collective of artists, with painters to make designs which replicate skilled artisans: handmade objects of metal, jewelry, wallpapers, fabrics, furniture, books, stained glass. Many of the designs were reproduced until today in fabrics and furniture. The movement Arts & Crafts lifted the hand-made creation, and was the conjugation of “good” and “applied” arts. Influenced by the socialist ideas of the art critic and artist John Ruskin, who argued that the man should seek, “not the accumulation of wealth, but the most simple pleasures, not the fortune, but the deepest inner satisfaction, to assess over any property the right to self-determination, to honour himself in the guileless pride and the sober pursuit of peace”.