Arts and Crafts movement

Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international design that was between 1860 and 1910. The writer and artist, William Morris led this movement and was inspired by John Ruskin and Augustus Pugin.Their goal was to create a design that was for the people and by the people and a source of pleasure to the maker and the user.

The term, ''Mission style,'' was used to describe Arts and Crafts Furniture in the U.S. This style had some characteristics which were: curved lines and asymmetric forms and patterns. This movement was one of the most influential and profound design of modern times.

Detail from a season ticket for The Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, by Walter Crane, England, UK, 1890. Museum no. E.4164-1915. © Victoria & Albert Museum, London

It grew out of a concept of industrialization.

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