ABSTRACT
Arthur Silver was a designer and founder of the design business, the Silver Studio. The Silver Studio was then founded in 1880, with the aim of 'bringing together a body of men to establish a studio which would be capable of supplying designs for the whole field of fabrics and other materials used in the decoration of the home'. The studio supplied pattern designs for textiles and wallpapers to many of the major national and international interior decorating suppliers, often in the Art Nouveau or Japonisme styles, between 1895 and the early 1900s. The studio employed designers including Harry Napper, and John Kay, their names being credited for various designs in European journals, such as Der Moderne Stil. The growth of design studios, such as the Silver Studios, that developed as distinct entities that supplied patterns and designs to a range of manufacturers was a feature of the later nineteenth century.
