Christopher Dresser (Glasgow Glasgow (pronounced /ˈɡlæzɡoʊ/ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands. A person from Glasgow is known as a Glaswegian, which is also the name of the local dialect, July 4 July 4 is the 185th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of the year. Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date, 1834 Year 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar) – Mulhouse Mulhouse is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With 271,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2007 it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin department, and the second largest in the Alsace region after Strasbourg. Its designated local development area consists of 16 communes, but its metropolitan area, November 24 November 24 is the 328th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining until the end of the year, 1904 Year 1904 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar)) was a designer A designer is a person who designs something. Perhaps the broadest definition is that provided by psychologist Herbert Simon: 'Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.' and writer on design, now widely known as Britain’s first independent industrial designer and as a contributor to the Anglo-Japanese The style developed in parallel with the British Arts and Crafts Movement and the Aesthetic Movement. In furniture design the impact is seen in simple rectilinear lines, a simplification of pattern and motif, and a value placed on the handmade, using materials that ranged from expensive high style ebonized woods to humble materials like beech or and Aesthetic Aesthetics is commonly known as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as "critical reflection on art, culture and nature." Aesthetics is a subdiscipline of axiology, a branch of philosophy, and is closely associated with movements in Britain The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name and the state form of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927. It was formed by the merger of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland, with Ireland being governed directly from Westminster through its Dublin Castle administration.

Dresser was born in Glasgow, Scotland Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands. A person from Glasgow is known as a Glaswegian, which is also the name of the local dialect. At age 13, he began attending the Government School of Design, Strand. He received training in design as well as botany Botany, plant science, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of biology and is the scientific study of plant life and development. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants, algae, and fungi including: structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, chemical properties, and evolutionary, and he took on the latter as his specialization. After completing his studies, he lectured in botany and art-botany at the School of Design and the Female School of Design. He also wrote two books on the subject, as well as series of articles that appeared in the Art Journal in 1857, "Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art Manufactures." He was awarded an honorary doctorate in absentia from the University of Jena Friedrich Schiller University of Jena is located in Jena, Thuringia in Germany and was renamed for the German writer Friedrich Schiller in 1934, Germany Germany (pronounced /ˈdʒɜrməni/ ), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ( listen)), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south in 1859 for his writings.

Dresser applied to be the chair of botany at University College, London in 1860 but was not granted the position. Around this time, he began to focus less on his activities as a botanist and more on his design practice. His design work included carpets, silver and electroplate, wallpaper, pottery, glass, and metalwork. He wrote several books on design and ornament, including The Art of Decorative Design (1862), The Development of Ornamental Art in the International Exhibition (1862), and Principles of Design (1871-72). In 1876, Dresser traveled throughout Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters which make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which, recording his impressions in Japan, its Architecture, Art and Art-Manufactures. He took inspiration both from Japanese motifs and materials, and his work showing this influence is considered archetypical of the Anglo-Japanese style The style developed in parallel with the British Arts and Crafts Movement and the Aesthetic Movement. In furniture design the impact is seen in simple rectilinear lines, a simplification of pattern and motif, and a value placed on the handmade, using materials that ranged from expensive high style ebonized woods to humble materials like beech or. From 1879, he was appointed director of the Linthorpe Art Pottery in Linthorpe in Middlesbrough Middlesbrough (pronounced /ˈmɪdəlzbrə/ ) is a town in the Tees Valley conurbation of North East England and sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It is the largest and most populous settlement within the Borough of Middlesbrough, which encompasses the town and several outlying villages which have become suburbs (although his name disappeared from the ware by 1882).

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