Arts and Crafts Movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles.

By about 1920 it can be considered as over in the UK, although the term continued in spurious use for various popular elements in design.

Gropius, still very much under the influence of William Morris and the British Arts and Crafts Movement...

William Morris (1834-1896) was the towering figure in late 19th-century design and the main influence on the Arts and Crafts movement.

The guild's work is characterised by plain surfaces of hammered silver, flowing wirework and coloured stones in simple settings.

William Morris is often seen as the grandfather of the international Arts and Crafts Movement.

The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century. In part a reaction to the mechanization of the Industrial Revolution, the movement was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and his romantic idealization of the craftsman taking pride in his personal handiwork.

Arts and Crafts was a design movement initiated by William Morris in 1861 which aimed to improve the quality of design and make it available to the widest possible audience. The Arts and Crafts Movement emerged from the Pre-Raphaelite circle with the founding of the design firm Morris and Co. in 1861 by William Morris.