ARCHIBALD KNOX
Manx born designer, Archibald Knox, was born on 9 April 1864. He is best known as being Liberty’s primary designer at the height of their success and influence upon UK and International design. Knox’s pioneering and prolific work bridged the Arts and Crafts Movement, Celtic Revival, Art Nouveau, and Modernism.
His design talent covered a wide range of objects, ornamental and utilitarian, and included silver and pewter tea sets, jewellery, inkwells, boxes, gravestones, watercolours, graphic designs, calligraphy, a house design, fonts and even bank cheques.