The genius of Dresser 100 years on
THE Victoria and Albert Museum’s main autumn exhibition, opening this month, is devoted to a retrospective of Christopher Dresser, the pioneering designer who anticipated many of the major design styles of the 20th century. It is timed to coincide with the centenary of his death in 1904.
Dresser, who was sent to London at 13 years of age to study at the Government Design School, became …