An outstanding figure in the revitalisation of the British decorative arts, Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) embodied all the aspects of creation and industrial production with huge Victorian factories and contracts to supply the new department stores. The Great London Exhibition of 1862 fired his enthusiasm with its rich display of Japanese artistic objects. He visited Japan in 1876–77 and published "Japan: Its Architecture, Art and Art-Manufactures", in which he showed that the Far East made little distinction between formal vocabulary and rationalised production processes.