Red House in Bexleyheath, Kent, is the only house William Morris ever commissioned and owned.   The house stands as the physical embodiment of his exuberant spirit, youthful ambition, romantic medievalism, and great sense of possibility. For five highly industrious and creatively charged years from 1860–5, it resounded with the ‘jovial campaign’ of decorating and furnishing and creating a garden to meet his emergent taste for strong colour and complex pattern making.  It also prompted the founding of the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (later Morris & Co.) in 1861. Recent research has revealed lost wall paintings, tantalising fragments of polychromatic patterns and a new understanding of the importance of the interior schemes and the inter-relationship of house and garden.  

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