Arts and Crafts movement .brief.

The Arts and Crafts movement emerged from Britain in mid 19th, attempting to reform the art design and trying to present a new appreciation of decorative art forms. The movement began in the second half of 19th century, when designer William Morris dedicated himself into reform the "craftsmanship."

The room: furniture by Phillip Webb and decor by William Morris.

As the picture shown above proofed, artists' collaboration were flourishing during the the movement; the painters provided the original designs and skilled craftsman were responsible to produced it, so there were so many furniture manufacturing, jewelry and metal making going on to that date, and different kinds of material like painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative art, textile, wallpaper, graphic and books were involved because of the collaborative "firm" in the movement.  William Morris and Phillip Webb, the architect, Ford Madox Brown, the painter pushed the movement through their spirit of craftsmanship and the movement were widely spread and reached a new level by 1880s.

William Morris's "Trellis" wallpaper design

vase and bowl from the Paul Revere Pottery

The movement had a great influence left from industry revolution which we could see in some of the architecture work, but the products at this time involved a large amount of artistic value besides machinery. Also, the craftsman were refusing to accept the idea of modern industries because they thought it lost the traditional craft method in the work. Therefore, the movement had produced many finished structure done with traditional craftsmanship and the spirit.

William Morris's Red House designed by Phillip Webb done in 1860.

The Robert Owen Museum, Newtown, by Frank Shaylor.