John Burrows will speak on William Morris in Boston and the Old Colony Style. It is fair to say that New Englanders were highly receptive to William Morris. They commissioned church windows, purchased wallpaper, fabric and carpet in significant amounts, and immediately accessioned his published lectures for their libraries. Morris & Company presented an impressive exhibition of their work at Boston’s Foreign Fair of 1883-84, and his artistic philosophy was infused into a newly coined design movement: the Old Colony Style.

John Burrows is a design historian and owner of J.R. Burrows & Company, Historical-Design Merchants of Rockland, Massachusetts. He has researched the influence of William Morris in Boston, the Foreign Fair, and the interconnection with the Old Colony Style of the 1880s. A toast and cake to celebrate William Morris’s 176th Birthday will immediately follow the lecture. 

This event will be hosted at the home of a member of the society and is open only to members, who will have received more details in the last bulletin on location and RSVPing.

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