Over the past few months, I’ve had several unexpected encounters with William Morris. Flipping through a magazine or perusing a website, I’ll notice something familiar in the background, usually unnoted in the article, that looks like a Morris design. It is a bit like seeing an old friend in an unfamiliar place—you’re not sure it is them, but then, on closer inspection, you wonder how you could have ever doubted it. The diversity of these contexts—in a travel article, in a review of…
