Arthur Sanderson & Sons Ltd, now known simply as Sanderson, is a British manufacturer of

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and

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, founded in 1860.

Company

The company was founded in 1860 in

Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ...

, London, by Arthur Sanderson (1829–1882), who began by importing French wallpapers. After several moves, Sanderson established a factory of his own in

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in 1879. An extension to the old factory was designed by Charles Voysey in 1902, and is now a

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called Voysey House. The old Chiswick factory, facing Voysey House, was gutted by fire in 1928 and is now used as offices. After Arthur Sanderson's death, the business was taken over by his three sons, John, Arthur Bengough, and Harold. In 1919, Sanderson and Sons opened a new factory in

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to manufacture fabrics. In 1924, Arthur Bengough Sanderson received a Royal Warrant as "Purveyor of Wallpapers and Paints to

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". The original blocks for

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...

's wallpaper designs were included in the purchase of Jeffrey & Co. When Morris & Co. was dissolved in 1940, Sanderson and Sons bought its wallpaper business and rights to use the Morris name. Today, those archives are held by the parent company Sanderson Design Group, which acquired Sanderson, along with Morris & Co and other historic brands, in 2003. The collection is held in

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, and is regularly used by the current designers, although it is not on public display.

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