Webb, Philip 1831-1915
English architect and designer

He was born in Oxford, and after his training he joined the practice of George Edmund Street (1852) where he met William Morris, who joined Street briefly in 1856. Thus began a long association, Webb becoming a central figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement and its offshoots. He designed furniture, metalwork and stained glass for Morris's firm, as well as animals and birds for textiles, at which Morris himself was not proficient. In architectural practice on his own from 1858, he designed several important houses such as the Red House, Bexley, for William and Jane Morris (1859), Clouds in Wiltshire (1881-86) and Standen, East Grinstead (1891).