When we think of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States, Brooklyn seldom comes to mind as a hotbed of A&C style. We think of suburban bungalows, the Midwest and California, not the city.
The Arts & Crafts Movement began as a response to social changes and the decline of design standards in the mid-19th century in industrialized Britain. Emphasis was placed on handcraftsmanship, ...
As far as history goes back, art and architecture have always been interrelated disciplines. From the elaboration of the Baroque movement to the geometric framework of modernism, architects found ...
David and Mary Gamble with architect Charles Greene (left) (ca. 1907), visiting the site of their future Pasadena residence (all images from the Greene & Greene Archives, courtesy The Huntington ...
Some design styles come and go, but this one stuck. In the early 1900s, the Arts and Crafts style swept the country, bringing with it an appreciation for hand-craftsmanship, sturdy oak furniture, and ...
ROSE VALLEY – When the Rose Valley Museum learned of an available $23,000 grant through the Decorative Arts Trust, its board knew exactly how it could use the funds: compile a coffee table book. “Rose ...
Traveling along a sometimes bumpy, bottleneck-riddled road towards completion, the Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement (MAACM) in St. Petersburg, Florida, has at long last entered the home ...
It was a well-made reproduction of a bookcase by Gustav Stickley, the furniture maker and early champion of the American Arts and Crafts movement, that first sparked entrepreneur Rudy Ciccarello’s ...
CHMMAIN copy 39088019784008 Purchased with Adopt a Books Fund. Introduction / Vera Kreilkamp -- Political, literary, and geographic contexts. The spirit of Ireland's past: illumination, ornament, and ...
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