Emery Walker House, dining room, © Emery Walker Trust
Details
Emery Walker was an engraver and printer, associated with the revival of fine printing in England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He became friends with many of the members of the Arts & Crafts Movement and met William Morris, who lived close to him in Hammersmith, in 1883. They shared a passion for books, architecture and design and Walker inspired Morris to set up his famous Kelmscott Press.
Venue
Emery Walker’s House, 7 Hammersmith Terrace, London W6 9TS
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
Cost
Cost of the visit is £55.00 - plus Eventbrite booking fee
The visit is limited to fourteen
Programme
10.30am
Visit to Emery Walker’s House
The 1750’s terraced house on the River Thames at Hammersmith was home to printer, photographer, and typographer, Emery Walker from 1903 until his death in 1933. A close friend of William Morris, who lived nearby in Upper Mall, the interiors reflect Walker’s interest in Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement and have been preserved very much as he would have known them. They are a treasure house of Arts and Crafts style with the walls adorned with hand-printed Morris & Co wallpaper, the linoleum in the entrance being the only known example of Morris linoleum still in its original setting, alongside Middle-Eastern rugs and Chinese and Moroccan ceramics. A collection of furniture owned by architect Philip Webb, including an oak chest and bookcase, was inherited by Emery Walker.
11.45am
Coffee
12.15am
Visit to the Willaim Morris Society
The Society was established in 1955 to perpetuate the memory of the life, work and ideas of William Morris (1834-1896). The Society’s office and museum are housed in the basement and Coach House of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, Morris’s London home for the last eighteen years of his life. During this time he ran his manufacturing company, Morris and Company, at Merton Abbey, he founded the Kelmscott Press and he held Socialist League (later the Hammersmith Socialist Society) meetings in the Coach House.