Dr. Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) was a prodigious Victorian designer of applied arts: objects for household use and decoration. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s earliest independent industrial designers. Over a period of nearly forty years, Dresser was connected to many different British manufacturers and created designs in a diverse range […]

  By Dresser  (arranged by publication date) Books The Art of Decorative Designs (London: Day & Son, 1862). The Development of Ornamental Art in the International Exhibition (London: Day & Son, 1862). Principles of Decorative Design (London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1873). Studies in Design (London: A. Goater in Nottingham, 1874). Japan, Its Architecture, Art, […]

Writing in Architectural Review in 1937, the German-born architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983), by then living in London, noted, “While engaged in research on the origins of the Modern Movement quite by chance I came across the name and two isolated examples of the work of Christopher Dresser.” The works to which Pevsner referred, and […]