Arts and Crafts Movement

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Chapters: Eric Gill, Edward Schroeder Prior, Pewabic Pottery, American craft, Wiener Werkstätte, American Craftsman, Studio pottery, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Elbert Hubbard, Henry van de Velde, California Bungalow, Greene and Greene, Tirley Garth, Gamble House, Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, Roycroft, Dun Emer Press, Dard Hunter, Thunderbird Lodge, Byrdcliffe Colony, St. David's Hotel, Gabriel Van Dievoet, Pond and Pond, New Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, William Morris Gallery, Antonin Nechodoma, Grueby Faience Company, Roseville pottery, Mary Chase Perry Stratton, Arequipa Pottery, Dedham Pottery, Studio craft, Country Day School movement, Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, Cuala Press, Compton Potters' Arts Guild, Abramtsevo Colony, Morris Chair, Ephraim Faience Pottery, Montague Fordham, Ethical pot, Della Robbia Pottery, Overbeck Sisters, George and Gladys Scheidemantel House, Anglo-Japanese style, Birmingham Guild of Handicraft, Harry Clarke - Darkness In Light, Standen, Hermit's Rest, Art needlework, Newlyn Copper, Mission Style Furniture, Ultimate bungalow, Bromsgrove Guild, Lummis House, Sparta First Presbyterian Church, Batchelder House, Alice Moore Hubbard, Art Workers Guild, Kelmscott House, Ernest Radford, William Morris Society, The Handicraft Guild, Harris Lebus, Butterfly plan, Bertha Crawford Hubbard, Keswick School of Industrial Art, Rodmarton Manor, Buyers Market of American Craft, Greenwich House Pottery, Craftsman Furniture. Excerpt: Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 (especially the second half of that period), continuing its influence until the 1930s. Instigated by the artist and writer William Morris (1834¿1896) during the 1860s and inspired by the writings of John Ruskin (1819¿1900), it had its earliest and most complete development in the British Islands but spread to Europe and North America. It was largely a reaction against the impoverished state of the decorative arts and the conditions by which they were produced. The philosophy was an advocacy of traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It also included advocacy of economic and social reform and has been considered as essentially anti-industrial. William Morris's Red House in London.The main developer of the Arts and Crafts style was William Morris (1834¿1896). His ideas were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, of which he had been a part, and from his reading of Ruskin. During 1861 Morris and some of his friends initiated a company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., which, as supervised by the partners, designed and made decorative objects for homes, including wallpaper, textiles, furniture and stained glass. Later it was re-formed as Morris & Co. During 1890 Morris established the Kelmscott Press, for which he designed a typeface based on Nicolas Jenson's letter forms of the fifteenth century. This printed fine and de-luxe editions of contemporary and historical English literature. Red House, Bexleyheath, London (1859), designed for Morris by architect Philip Webb, exemplifies the early Arts and Crafts style, with its well-proportioned solid forms, wide porches, steep roof, pointed window arches, brick fireplaces and wooden fittings. Webb rejected the grand classical style, based the design on British vernacular architecture and attempted to express the texture o...