The Arts and Crafts Movement can be said to have begun as an antidote to the late-nineteenth century's love-affair with industrialisation and technology. Its proponents looked back to the days when objects created by craftsmen and artisans had a 'hand-made' appearance, rather than the smooth, impersonal works turned out by mass-industrialisation.
Yet the Arts and Crafts Movement was more than a simple nostalgia trip, combining as it did the principles of both aesthetism and utility. Nowhere is this combination seen to such delightful effect than in the furniture and metalwork designed and created by such luminaries as William Morris, Ernest Gimson, Gustav Stickley, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright and A. W. N. Pugin.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, and with a clear and accessible text, Arts and Crafts - Furniture and Metalwork is an essential guide to one of the most popular aspects of this striking design movement.
Format:
64 pages, ill. color, hardcover
Anul apariţiei:
1999
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