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Lewis Foreman Day
English, 1845-1910
Died: London, England 1910
b Peckham Rye, London, 29 Jan 1845; d London, 18 April 1910. English designer and writer. Day was educated in France and Germany, but his interest in design was provided by visits to the South Kensington Museum, London (now the Victoria & Albert Museum). In 1865 he entered the office of Lavers & Barraud, glass painters and designers. Sometime later he became keeper of cartoons at Clayton & Bell and by 1870 had joined Heaton, Butler & Bayne, for whom he worked on the decoration of Eaton Hall, Cheshire. In late 1880 Day started his own business designing textiles, wallpapers, stained glass, embroidery, carpets, tiles, pottery, furniture, viler, jewelry and book covers. He designed tiles for May & Co. and Pilkington's Tile and Pottery Co., stained glass and wallpaper for W.B. Simpson & Co., wallpapers for Jeffrey & Co. and textiles for Turnbull & Stockdale where he was made Art Director in 1881.
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