Arts & Crafts (Abbeville Stylebooks)
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ISBN: 0789200104 / Publisher: Abbeville Pr, June 1995
Stylebooks is the publisher's small-format (5x6.5") reference book series, each issue summarizing the main themes, elements, and personnel connected with a style in international architecture and design. The subject here is the era that saw the return of fine craftsmanship as late-19th-century designers rebelled against the mechanization of the Industrial Revolution. B&w photos. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Recoiling from the mechanization brought by the industrial revolution, late-nineteenth-century designers in England and America urged a return to the fine craftsmanship exemplified by medieval craft guilds. Leaders such as John Ruskin, William Morris, and Gustav Stickley asserted that in honest handwork and spare, simple spaces a life of true beauty could be found.Arts & Crafts brings back the turn-of-the-century era of Morris and Stickley, of bungalows and built-ins, by detailing the period's history and its architecture, designers, furnishings, fashions, arts, and key buildings. It takes us on a tour of the movement's icons: Morris's Red House, Greene and Greene's Gamble House, and Wright's Prairie houses; Rookwood pottery and Tiffany glass; The Craftsman and the Morris chair - all simple yet beautiful designs that never went out of style.
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