Venture capital firm Trinity Ventures wanted to give its San Francisco office a «lived - in» feel, so
it gave interior design firm Homepolish the go - ahead to use mismatched wallpaper and vintage furniture.
By this time his earnings from his oil paintings were rising nicely (he had a huge income of over # 3,000 a year), and he had been
given a partnership (along with Edward Burne - Jones) in the
interior design firm of his fellow pre-Raphaelite William Morris (1834 - 96) that produced stained glass, furniture, wallpaper and printed textiles, in accordance with the principles of the Arts and Crafts Movement (1862 - 1914).