eramics" that was promoted by William Morris, and others, from the movement's beginnings (Adams 9). They held in common the notion that every aspect of the human-built environment could be a thing of beauty. But they did not adopt the movement's conviction that achieving these ends meant a return to the medieval past. Indeed, the Glasgow designers were decidedly ahistorical in the matter of sources. Just as Mackintosh had this "tendency to abandon the example of history as a source of inspiration in building" his furniture and other works were also "very simple in design and only decorated with organic and geometric motifs devoid of any historical associations" (Adams 106).
One aspect of design that was, however, shared by Mackintosh and the Arts
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