Lewis Foreman Day

Lewis Foreman Day (29 January 1845 – 18 April 1910) was a British decorative artist and industrial designer and an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.

He was first employed as a clerk, then, at the age to twenty he worked for the glass painters and designers Lavers, Barraud and Westlake.

[1] He started his own business in London in 1870,[1] expanding his activities beyond glass painting to a wide range of media including wallpapers for W. B. Simpson & Co., textiles for Turnbull & Stockdale, and tiles for Maw's and Pilkington's.

[5] He also made a critique of what he saw as un-businesslike Arts and Crafts attitudes in Moot Points, a dialogue with his friend Walter Crane.

[6] He served on the consultative committee of the Victoria and Albert Museum when it transferred to its new building in Cromwell Road in 1909, and influenced the arrangement its collections there.

Aesthetic Movement clock by Day for Howell James & Co. , c. 1878, Cherry case, ceramic and aluminum. LACMA
From Day's book, The Anatomy of Pattern (1887)
Grave of Lewis Foreman Day in Highgate Cemetery