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It is an extraordinary picture because it’s very much an antidote to the Industrial Revolution. Burne-Jones himself came from Birmingham, and you see the girls here and nice arid landscape, but here an a kind of oasis. Is this oasis of beauty? Burne-Jones claimed that

when beauty was allied with the imagination we are close to the secret of all things. This is one of his greatest paintings “Love among the ruins” celebration his profound belief that the human heart can survive whatever life throws at it. These works encourage the viewer to delve into the world of the subconscious. And all this a century before those of the explorers of dreams, the surrealists and the works of Sigmund Freud. It’s a profoundly modern way of thinking not only about painting, but also about the very nature of human identity. In the late 19th century the Pre-Raphaelite idea of looking back to a pre-industrial cost extended into all the arts, particularly architecture. One of the foremost architects of the age was William Butterfield who completely

reinterpreted medieval Gothic architecture in Victorian terms. This is Butterfield’s wonderful кибул College Oxford which, i think, is one of the greatest buildings in the country. Yeah I know people have had a go at it over the years, but it is just I think amazing staggering I mean if you’d really don't like this get a life because it's a superb statement. I mean yes of course it must remind the people a little bit like a whole lotta Teddy Boys arriving at some kinda tea dance (вечеринка с танцами) but it is just the thing to shake of ла-ла I’d love this place and I'll never have a word set against it.

Architecture became a central part of the Arts and Crafts movement (движение ремесла и искусства) in the late 19th century and the Pre-Raphaelites were keen to play an active part. This is the most extraordinary thing it's a design for a Gothic Window by Millais which was drawn in 1853. And this is an arch that blows me away in a way because it's incredibly senseless as these angels and twine kissing and I find this extraordinary because it's art Nouveau (модерн) completely anticipated a most amazing piece of craftsmanship (мастерство) and incredibly passionate a very difficult thing to build I have to say. In the nineteenth century this design was never executed, Millais’s window was never built. Few years ago I thought I'd have some fun, so I commissioned somebody to build the arch.

The move into architecture shows the keenness of nineteenth century artists to extend their influence over every aspect to people's lives, especially homes and interiors and influence that still survives today. This is Kelmscott Manor on the banks of the Thames, it was built of traditional Cotswold limestone in the late 16th century and William Morris chose it as his summer home, signing a joint lease (совместная аренда) with Rossetti in the summer of 1871. William Morris was absolutely passionate about Kelmscott, he felt that the house was an organic part to the countryside and totally belong to it. He described the roof and he said the orderly beauty of the tiles reminded him a fish scales or bird feathers. Rossetti, however, hated the place and called it the doozies stumble of beehives. I find it very extraordinary to be in William Moris’s house, it comes good, but particularly this book, what some people say is his masterpiece. It’s a complete homage to calligraphy I E (херня какая-то). Everything is done by hand it was designed by William Morris, and it was executed by Fairfax Morry to a whole letter designs by Burne-Jones and it is, of course, the ениод-енот, is astounding: all gold leaf, these extraordinary illustrations and everything is by hand. It is almost unbelievable, I mean, it's going back to the medieval idea of manuscripts. How anybody really could be bother to do this is… is what is remarkable. I mean, if you really wanted an antidote to the industrial revolution, you got here in spades absolutely extraordinary. Imagine setting about doing this today… I mean, I shudder to think how long it would take to do a page of this and of course it is very interesting to see the way was put together now this is another brilliant one. It almost takes your breath away, this detail, It’s purely about beauty. As a book, it has no point at all, other than it's about beauty.

William Morris declared: “Have nothing in your house which you do not know to be useful, or believed to be beautiful”. This is something for which I'm all in favor.

This piano was decorated by an artist called Kate Fultner, who was well-known Victorian decorator. Very much influenced by Burne-Jones. And it's a fabulous thing, I remember when I bought it, it was filthy dirty (грязное-грязное). A sheff told me about it, and it was covered in nicotine and brown. And I just thought, well, maybe it'll clean up, but

if it didn't it belonged obviously in some bar somewhere and I thought if it didn't we could just go back to the bar it came from. Luckily it cleaned up absolutely beautifully and that's suddenly discovered, tonight great delight, that in fact is a rock n roll piano, rate rock n roll action too. Very good for Jerry Lee, you see, and we just sometimes uses in the evenings and covered up with her cloth get run here and guarded over by Processing, we let the Rock and Roll happen.

Although I'm now pretty familiar with Victorian art and architecture there are still places I haven't been to. This is вичиманна, блеааааааааааааать just outside бувэ сука Hampton. It's one of the most perfect examples of the marriage between art and architecture. The unexpected time capsule filled with Pre-Raphaelite treasures in one of the least expected two places. There are times when you stumble upon something extraordinary. And I'm frayed that I didn't know бутик нана. It's the most amazing place I think I've been to in many - many years, because the family have continued to collect Victorian art, buying pitches for nothing, when Victorian art was worthless, and the consequences that we have the perfect Victorian interior.

I think the last time I was totally blown away by a building that I've never seen before was I went to see Sundany, to the north of Paris where of course it said that the Gothic arch was first invented by Аватсудже, and i've just cried going around here because this витик манна is the most extranormaly place. I think I've I've been to in so many others, I can't even count them. It's alive, this place is not some museum at all, it’s about the whole families passion full of Victorian art – art collected in the thirties and forties, when art of this kind was just value this I just valueless. I’ve just seen some carpets up stairs which were designed by Rossetti for Swinburne, which the honorable for five pounds basically of a skip and you just say this building is it.

This Jamie Morris’s little sofa, which she sat, those the work of her children here, you know embroidery and everything on its just breathtaking overwhelming and I don’t know, I don't think I've ever been to a place like this at all, because its Victorian alive, it's not a museum, you've got to come here.

Nineteenth century artists and architects were often passionate believers in social improvement, and their return to ideas first forge before the age of Rafael gives nineteenth century architecture its medieval look. There is no greater example than the buildings made for a whole community - A Port Sunlight in Liverpool. The man behind Port Sunlight was William Hesketh Lever, later broadly ?? for whom the owner of the sunlight soap factory. What Lever was trying to do with the fortune he made from his soap was to put something back for his workers so he created here report sunlight over a thousand houses sensitive course around his art gallery, which contain some the most significant мортон pictures of its day. He built to Cottage Hospital, he built schools, he built community halls, he built really practically everything you could think of including a swimming pool. And I regret to say a Temperance Center, I shall be visiting that. These were men, who were profited from the industrial revolution, and now want to give something back and the arts and crafts style was a perfect fit for them. May not have work to everyone's taste, may not have lasted, but it was a noble ambition that showed just how extensive the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites had become.