Now lets go back in time to a period when interiors valued craftsmanship and raw materials over aesthetic trends. Welcome to the beautiful, warm embrace of Arts and Crafts style, a late 19th-century design philosophy that arose in response to overstuffed mass-market furniture and gaudy decorative arts fostered by the industrial age.Traditional Craftsmanship and Natural.
Join me as we delve into the essential components of this classic look. In this installment, we will examine its history and principles and find out how you can bring the Arts and Crafts aesthetic into your home. So sit tight and dive into a design movement centered around simplicity, utility and the aesthetic of handmade details.Traditional Craftsmanship and Natural.
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Now, Traditional Craftsmanship and Natural
The Arts and Crafts derived design philosophy has roots of honesty in craft and natural aesthetics, every hammer hit or brush stroke being visible. That’s more than a style of design — that’s a way to live: Form follows function, not fluff. Attached to this idea is something called “Truth to materials”- the basic open, honest utilization of nature through its resources. For example, a quality craftsman may leave the joints of a piece of furniture exposed to exhibit the craftsmanship involved in its assembly.
A Brief History of Arts and Crafts Movement
This home style traces its roots back to the Arts and Crafts movement, which began in Britain in the 1860s as a response to the impersonal nature of mass-produced goods created during the Industrial Revolution. Proponents like William Morris spoke for simpler objects guided by hand, rather than through radical mechanization. Sociopolitical sentiments bolstered by the emergence of an aesthetic movement that encompassed more than mere decoration, change was coming to a class structures well established in the Victorian era. Literally, it flourished in the United States from 1880-1920 where Gustav Stickley of The Craftsman magazine endorsed it. This movement was