Arts & Crafts Style (PBK); Author: Anscombe, Isabelle; Hardback; Book

Author: Anscombe, Isabelle
PBK Edition; Hardback; Book; 120 B&w and 80 Colour Illustrations
192 pages
Published: March 1991
Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0714826146
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The central feature of the Arts and Crafts movement, which flourished in the 1870s and 1880s, was the ideal of craftsmanship. Artists and craft workshops produced textiles, furniture, ceramics, and metalwork which raised everyday objects to a level of the decorative arts. This illustrated survey examines the movement in Europe and North America. 180 illustrations, 100 in color.Demonstrates how the style of the arts and crafts movement, which flowered in the 1870s and 1880s, was used by the liberal middle class as a reaction against the flowery excesses of the early 19th century. Pictorial essays provide detailed explanations of architecture, interiors and furnishings.