It is to one of the most inventive and eclectic minds of Victorian England that the Musée La Piscine - museum of art and industry - pays homage to Roubaix, with a first retrospective in France.
This place, a former Art Deco pond, suits William Morris (1834-1896), best known for his textile motifs based on oriental tracery and scrollwork dotted with flowers, fruits and animals, as well as for having laid the foundations of Arts & Crafts, a movement which was the first to have the ambition of an art for everyone, everywhere and on a daily basis.
"Morris is Hugo, Jaurès, Philippe Starck and Antoine Gallimard together"
, summarizes the curator Sylvette Botella-Gaudichon, already author here, in 2009, of a masterful exhibition on the Bloomsbury group (Virginia Woolf, John Keynes or Roger Fry, so many moderns largely indebted to Morris).
In fact, both in these six spaces evoking or reconstructing interiors and in the adjacent bookstore, both through books fortunately...
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