26
March 2026

Morris to Ikea: Modernity and Tradition at Home

Welcome to The Arts Society Taunton
Thursday, March 26, 2026 - 10:00
Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall Taunton TA2 8JY
Online Event

Join us on a journey of interior design for the home from the Victorian era to the present day.

William Morris was a revolutionary force in Victorian Britain. His work dramatically changed the fashions and ideologies of the era, and he remains as influential and important today as he was in his own time.

Frank Lloyd Wright devoted his life to promoting architecture as “the great mother art, behind which all others are definitely, distinctly and inevitably related. Throughout his career Wright would experiment with various ways to harness the advantages of machine production to design quality, affordable housing and beautifully designed furnishings for large numbers of people.

IKEA reaches millions of hearts and homes all over the world. And it all began in a small Swedish town in the 1940s, with an enterprising boy who hoped to be able to create a better life for people everywhere.

Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor is an artist and art historian: he studied John Constable as a post graduate at Essex and Yale, taught at Felsted School and has been Head of Painting at The Open College of the Arts and Course Director at the Inchbald School of Design in London. In 2000, Stephen turned to landscape painting with early shows at King's College Cambridge, Meisel’s New York and Vertigo in London. Now has pictures in private collections world-wide and his book Oak: One tree, three years, fifty paintings was featured in the Guardian and was an Oprah Winfrey Book of the Week.