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The Arts and Crafts movement emerged from the attempt to reform design and decoration in mid-19th century Britain. It was a reaction against a perceived decline in standards that the reformers associated with machinery and factory production.
The Arts and Crafts movement was a reformist movement, at first inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, that was at its height between approximately 1880–1910.The movement influenced British decorative arts, architecture, cabinet making, crafts, and "cottage" garden design.
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles [1] and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. [2] William Morris' design for Trellis wallpaper, 1862
Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters.
The American Craftsman style was a 20th century American offshoot of the British Arts and Crafts movement, [1] which began as early as the 1860s. [2]A successor of other 19th century movements, such as the Gothic Revival and the Aesthetic Movement, [2] the British Arts and Crafts movement was a reaction against the deteriorating quality of goods during the Industrial Revolution, and the ...
Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement (MAACM) is a 137,000 sq ft (12,700 m 2) museum which opened in 2021 in St. Petersburg, Florida. [3] The museum is funded by The Two Red Roses Foundation, [4] which in turn was endowed by art collector, businessman and philanthropist Rodolfo (Rudy) Ciccarello.
A major touring exhibition organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, opened at the Newark Museum on September 15, 2010. The exhibition then opened at the Dallas Museum of Art on February 18, 2011, and remained on view until May 8, 2011, before opening at the San Diego Museum of Art on June ...
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, [1] writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.