London December 2019
London Dezember 2019
Hotel:
Holiday Inn London - Kensington High Street
Wrights Ln, Kensington, London W8 5SP, Grossbritannien
Eat : Café - Lunch - Dinning:
Masala Zone Covent Garden
48 FLORAL STREET, LONDON WC2E 9DA
Cote Brasserie – Kensington
47 Kensington Court London W8 5 DA
The Grand by Concerto
67-69 Piccadilly, London W1J 0HJ, England
Garfunkel's Restaurant
128 Gloucester Road | 25-26 Gloucester Arcade, London SW7 4SF, England
Bill's High Street Kensington
1 Kensington Arcade 123 Kensington High Street | Kensington Arcade, London W8 5SF, England
Black Sheep Coffee
35 Coleman Street, London EC2R 5EH, England
Maison Assouline
196A Piccadilly, London W1J 9EY, England
Mazi
12-14 Hillgate Street | Kensington, London W8 7SR, England
Le Pain Quotidien
15-17 Exhibition Road | South Kensington, London SW7 2HE, England
The Long Acre Bar & Kitchen
1 Upper St. Martin's Lane, London WC2H 9NY, England
Steak & Co. Leicester Square Charing Cross
3-5 Charing Cross Road | Just Off Leicester Square, London WC2H 0HA, England
Aktivitäten:
Hatchards (Books)
187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE, England
Waterstone's Booksellers Ltd (Books)
203-206 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE, England
JING Tea
18-19 St. Christophers Place, London W1U 1NN, England
Temple Church
The Temple | King's Bench Walk, London EC4Y 7BB, England
18 Stafford Terrace - The Sambourne Family Home (House)
18 Stafford Terrace, London W8 7BH, England
Sir John Soane's Museum (House)
13 Lincoln's Inn Fields | Holborn, London WC2A 3BP, England
British Museum
Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, England
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, England
Prince Edward Theatre - MARY POPPINS Musical
28 Old Compton Street, London W1D 4HS, England
London Coliseum (Nutcracker, English National Ballet)
Regent's Canal walk
Kensington Gardens
Daniel Robbins: Frederic Leighton and his 'Private Palace of Art'
Frederic Leighton was at the heart of the burgeoning art world of late Victorian London. President of the Royal Academy from 1878 to 1896, he was instrumental in raising the status of art and artists, making a unique contribution to the cultural life of his time. This lecture explores aspects of his career and the part played by his extraordinary studio-house in establishing his reputation.
Daniel Robbins, Leighton House Museum, London
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William Morris | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:19 1 Early life
00:03:28 1.1 Youth: 1834–1852
00:06:45 1.2 Oxford and the Birmingham Set: 1852–1856
00:11:22 1.3 Apprenticeship, the Pre-Raphaelites, and marriage: 1856–1859
00:14:31 2 Career and fame
00:14:40 2.1 Red House and the Firm: 1859–1865
00:20:09 2.2 Queen Square and iThe Earthly Paradise/i: 1865–1870
00:23:49 2.3 Kelmscott Manor and Iceland: 1870–1875
00:28:58 2.4 Textile experimentation and political embrace: 1875–1880
00:36:06 3 Later life
00:36:14 3.1 Merton Abbey and the Democratic Federation: 1881–1884
00:42:42 3.2 Socialist League: 1884–1889
00:49:10 3.3 The Kelmscott Press and Morris' final years: 1889–96
00:56:06 4 Personal life
01:00:21 5 Work
01:00:30 5.1 Literature
01:04:42 5.2 Textile design
01:08:49 5.3 Book illustration and design
01:11:20 6 Legacy
01:14:16 6.1 Notable collections and house museums
01:17:50 7 Literary works
01:18:09 7.1 Collected poetry, fiction, and essays
01:19:55 7.2 Translations
01:20:55 7.3 Published lectures and papers
01:21:25 8 Gallery
01:21:34 8.1 Morris & Co. stained glass
01:21:42 8.2 Morris & Co. textiles
01:21:49 8.3 Kelmscott Press
01:22:00 9 See also
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William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role propagating the early socialist movement in Britain.
Morris was born in Walthamstow, Essex to a wealthy middle-class family. He came under the strong influence of medievalism while studying Classics at Oxford University, there joining the Birmingham Set. After university, he trained as an architect, married Jane Burden, and developed close friendships with Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and with Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb. Webb and Morris designed Red House in Kent where Morris lived from 1859 to 1865, before moving to Bloomsbury, central London. In 1861, Morris founded the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co decorative arts firm with Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Webb, and others, which became highly fashionable and much in demand. The firm profoundly influenced interior decoration throughout the Victorian period, with Morris designing tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, and stained glass windows. In 1875, he assumed total control of the company, which was renamed Morris & Co.
Morris rented the rural retreat of Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire from 1871 while also retaining a main home in London. He was greatly influenced by visits to Iceland with Eiríkr Magnússon, and he produced a series of English-language translations of Icelandic Sagas. He also achieved success with the publication of his epic poems and novels, namely The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball (1888), the Utopian News from Nowhere (1890), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End (1896). In 1877, he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings to campaign against the damage caused by architectural restoration. He embraced Marxism and was influenced by anarchism in the 1880s and became a committed revolutionary socialist activist. He founded the Socialist League in 1884 after an involvement in the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), but he broke with that organization in 1890. In 1891, he founded the Kelmscott Press to publish limited-edition, illuminated-style print books, a cause to which he devoted his final years.
Morris is recognised as one of the most significant cultural figures of Victoria ...