As a twenty-six-year-old architect, Arthur Mackmurdo met William Morris and was inspired by his ideas and accomplishments in app
lied design. He led the group that established the Century Guild, which aimed to elevate the design arts. They incorporated Renaissance and __________ design ideas into their work. Their designs provide one of the links between the arts and crafts movement and the floral stylization of art nouveau. Some of their swirling organic forms, in fact, seem to be pure art nouveau in their conception and execution.
As they work together Arthur Mackmurdo and William Morris contributed in different ways to the work they developed together, while Mackmurdo preferred the asymmetric style of Japanese art compositions, Morris liked specially the wallpaper designs that align perfectly in horizontal or vertical lines across the whole piece.
