The Perfectly Preserved Arts & Crafts Interior: Emery Walker’s House

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I am an interior designer on a mission to champion craftsmanship through Artfully Crafted, a platform I have created to spotlight the current generation of master makers in order to inspire the next. Discover the skills and meet the makers behind a broad and diverse range of crafts from silversmithing and woodcarving to weaving and embroidery, with a new video published every Saturday. Typographer and antiquarian Emery Walker was a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement, alongside his close friends William Morris and Philip Webb. This week, we had the pleasure of visiting his house, which is one of the only intact Arts & Crafts interiors left in London. Thank you Taryn Power for leading the tour! Contents of this video: 00:00 Coming up 02:10 Who Was Emery Walker? 07:44 Sconces, Wallpaper, Upholstery, Murals and Manuscripts 16:21 William Morris’s Chair 19:05 The Kelmscott Chaucer 21:57 Philip Webb Furniture & Emery Walker’s Ceramics Collection 26:03 The Drawing Room: Rugs, Furniture and Glassware 34:32 The History of the House 39:09 Dorothy Walker’s Room 41:56 Seasonal Curtains 43:00 May Morris’s Spectacular Embroidery 44:27 The Trick to Disguising Electrical Cables THINGS MENTIONED Emery Walker's House: https://www.emerywalker.org.uk/ The Kelmscott Chaucer Online: https://www.kelmscottchauceronline.org/ The Art Workers’ Guild: https://www.artworkersguild.org/ The Hammersmith Socialist League: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw134108/The-Hammersmith-Socialist-Society Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society: https://societyofdesignercraftsmen.org.uk/our-history The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB): https://www.spab.org.uk/ Article: '7 Hammersmith Terrace, London: The Last Arts and Crafts Interior' by Aileen Reid: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41809356 Barnsley Furniture: https://barnsley-furniture.co.uk/our-heritage/ Phillip Webb: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/philip-webb-589 The Doves Press: https://www.emerywalker.org.uk/doves-press The Wilson in Cheltenham: https://wilsonmuseum.org.uk/collection/the-doves-press/ William Morris Wallpaper: ‘Bird Tapestry Fabric’: https://www.wmorrisandco.com/uk/bird-tapestry-fabric-webbs-blue-44206-237312/ ‘Willow Wallpaper’: https://www.wmorrisandco.com/uk/willow-wallpaper-slate-44027-210382/ ‘Wallflower Wallpaper’: https://www.wmorrisandco.com/uk/wallflower-wallpaper-woad-blue-44002-217187/ ‘Daisy Wallpaper’: https://www.wmorrisandco.com/uk/daisy-wallpaper-willow-pink-43973-212562/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alienorcros TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alienorcros Sign up to my newsletter to get a monthly roundup: https://alienorcros.com Get in touch: [email protected] Produced and presented by Aliénor Cros https://www.alienorcros.com/ Shot and edited by Edgar Lowe Music by Lorena Shapiro https://www.instagram.com/upper_attic Stop-motion intro by Georgie Beattie https://www.instagram.com/gbeats24 All opinions are my own. This video is not an instructional guide. © 2026 Alienor Cros. All rights reserved.