The best preserved Arts & Crafts home in Britain reopens in Hammersmith on March 1st with a display celebrating the Private Press Movement and a Spring programme of events including an online talk and candlelit and textile tours at Emery Walker’s House.

The display, Printing Partnerships : Emery Walker & the Private Press Movement, charts Walker’s importance in the world of typography and printing; from his involvement with his close friend William Morris’s Kelmscott Press, an ill-fated partnership with Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press, to his final print collaboration with Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers. A small selection of these rare books can be seen in the historic setting of this atmospheric house museum in Hammersmith Terrace.

Emery Walker’s home is packed with Arts & Crafts treasures, outstanding textiles and embroideries and one of the largest in situ collections of Morris & Co wallpapers in the world. Amongst Walker’s many possessions are items which were created especially for, or given to him by his close friends and colleagues; leading artists of their day.

From March 1st, visitors can step back in time at 11am or 1pm on Thursdays and Saturdays and enjoy guided tours of the house and riverside garden limited to just eight visitors at a time. And this Spring Emery Walker’s Trust will run specialist textile tours in the day and atmospheric candlelit tours in the evening. Prebooking essential via emerywalker.org.uk. Emery Walker’s House, 7 Hammersmith Terrace, LONDON W69TS.

Helen Elletson, Senior Curator at Emery Walker’s Dining Room . Pic Lucinda MacPherson.jpg
Dates for your Diary

March 1st: Emery Walker’s House reopens with guided tours on Thursdays and Saturdays.
March 5th: Textile tour
March 12th: Candlelit tour
March 24th a: Online talk on the Doves Press and Kelmscott Press
March 26th: Candlelit tour
April 9th: Textile tour