This is part of a series of posts summarising key points of different design movements, see A Very Brief Guide To Design Movements – Introduction for more information.
Arts & Crafts
Considered the earliest, possibly first art & design movement
Reaction against industrialisation, mass production and the machine age
1880s – early 1900
Nostalgia for the medieval times – seen as the ‘golden age of creativity and freedom’
Influenced by the gothic revival architecture of Augustus Pugin and the politics and works of Karl Marx and John Ruskin
Sometimes the products intentionally featured evidence of the manual manufacture processes e.g. hammer marks on beaten copper and silver, dovetail joints
Very expensive though – in the end only the upper classes could afford it
Used stylised flowers and birds, allegories from the Bible and literature, Celtic motifs
Artists and craftsmen were seen as equals, neither superior or separate
Took its name from the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society founded in 1887
Pioneered by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & co.
founded by William Morris
included Phillip Webb, Ford Maddox Brown, Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Everything was handmade using traditional methods
CASE STUDY – William Morris
Blue Pigeons 
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