The Arts & Crafts Movement

·         Late Victorian period in England

·         The most industrialized country in the world at that time.

·         Industrial life  precapitalist forms of culture and society.

·         Arts and Crafts designers sought to improve standards of decorative design

·         Did not promote a particular style, but it did advocate reform as part of its philosophy and instigated a critique of industrial labor.

·         Return to hand-craftsmanship and to assert the creative independence of individual craftspeople.

• Influential, profound and far-reaching design movements of modern times.

 

William Morris and Philip Webb, Red House

·         William Morris and Philip Webb, Red House (side), Bexleyheath, England, 1860 
Philip Speakman Webb (1831-1915) Oxford, the son of a doctor

·         design the decorative elements of a house
Bexleyheath, a southeastern suburb of London, England

·         interior design provide the appropriate atmosphere to foster domestic harmony created a sense of romanticism

·         furniture, stained glass, wall hangings, wall paintings, panels, embroidered panels, the impressive Drawing Room

·         miniature minstrels gallery, and murals featuring Chaucer, Malory, Froissart and Dante themes.

·         Tudor Gothic style

·         steep roofs, prominent chimneys, cross gables, and exposed-beam ceilings

·         exterior shows style of masonry, built from the local red brick.

·         majority of arts and crafts cottages. 

“My work is the embodiment of dreams” - William Morris

I chose William Morris because his building' red house are still affect for everyone where are so excellent and bring out the arts and crafts cottages.

Art Nouveau

·         more or less concurrent with the Arts and Crafts style

·         was not concerned with the social reform movements

·         mid-19th century European taste.

·         Originating in Belgium and France,

·         ideas from the past, and even from other cultures

curves-- grasses, lilies, vines

Chair Willow 2, 1904 by Charles Renie Mackintosh

·         Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1868.

·         An outstanding architect, furniture designer, and painter

·         the greatest flowering of the British Arts & Crafts movement in either Scotland or England. 

·         He died in London in 1928.

·         Ash wood chair with upholstered or straw seat. Low back 104,5 cm

·         L. 46 cm, H. 104,5 cm , P. 39,5 cm

·         cbm:  0,40

I choosing the chair willow from Charles Renie Mackintosh because his chair style are totally different feel from the other designer that deeply attract to me.

The Arts & Crafts Movement

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Art Nouveau

http://char.txa.cornell.edu/art/decart/artcraft/artcraft.htm

http://www.classic-design24.com/uk/chairs/chair-willow-2-by-charles-renie-mackintosh-1904.html

http://www.artfact.com/subcollection/charles-rennie-mackintosh-ll8rrx0fkc

Joy of Work

Joy of work <<< This word giving a plenty of different meaning for each every person of what different kind of happy thing happen.

While give me , I feel that joy of work means that getting grate or something you work for it happen happily by day to day.

That means like while you work for something that together with each other person that happy feeling continuous bring freshly to your mind

Work , before I started in foundation ,

the college firstly given to my mind that college or university that must be serious from day to day

Means that every people face always the same and must fully concentrate while everything happen when you are wake ... oh no it are terrible ...!!!!!!!!

But.... it are wrong that after I started my foundation , I feel that all people are so friendly even the lecture given me the feeling that a good friend more than the lecture ( haha it hard to explain  XD)

They are so friendly  =)

From the foundation and degree I learned many thing that I had never learn before

it given me feel interest for those thing that fully bring out good feeling and fully catch my interest to it.

<-When have new project we are so busy ~.~

Sometimes even my bedroom also KENA T.T

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In this coarse it bring out the feeling of mystery

it given a feeling that can nearly or without ,

but it also given me it are a near to me.

In this course I feel that I can fully afford my mine on it,

it thoroughly given my mine that is a fascinating coarse ,

and I feel that I can even given  fully concentrate to it  that compare from other thing.

 This happen while we test fly our project 3D kite XD we all getting wet =D

It is a proof that  already deeply mark into my mind that having the course in collage are happily , it given me the best memory , and fully fill in my life to meaningful and it really accompany to the better future that I had never think about before ^_^