Author: zellagether4462

This summer the National Trust has reinstated a lost Arts & Crafts ‘Garden Snug’ at Red House in south east London, the only house commissioned and lived in by William Morris, and once the centre of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. The new garden in Bexleyheath was inspired by the original garden notes of Red House architect Philip Webb and draws on an ordnance survey map from when Morris and his family were residents between 1860-1865. The map shows the outdoor spaces separated into different ‘rooms’, with each understood to have had its own function and atmosphere. Photographs of the garden from ... Read more