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.