Arts and Crafts movement

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The Arts and Crafts movement was a late 19th- and early 20th-century design and social reform movement that championed traditional craftsmanship, simple forms, and the use of natural materials as a reaction against industrial mass production.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art movement
design movement
social reform movement
aimedAt improving design quality of everyday objects
raising status of decorative arts
reforming working conditions for craftsmen
associatedConcept anti-industrialism
domestic reform through design
guild socialism
truth to materials
unity of art and labor
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
endTime early 20th century
field architecture
book design
ceramics
decorative arts
furniture design
graphic design
interior design
metalwork
textile design
geographicSpread Austria
Canada
Germany
Japan
Scandinavia
United States of America
surface form: United States
hasKeyFigure C. R. Ashbee
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Voysey
Gustav Stickley
John Ruskin
M. H. Baillie Scott
May Morris
C. R. Ashbee
surface form: Philip Webb

Walter Crane
William Morris
hasKeyOrganization Art Workers Guild
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
surface form: Guild and School of Handicraft

Morris & Co.
hasMainCharacteristic emphasis on traditional craftsmanship
handmade production
honesty of materials and construction
integration of art and everyday life
medievalist and vernacular inspirations
preference for simple forms
reaction against industrial mass production
rejection of excessive ornamentation
social idealism
use of natural materials
influenced 20th-century design reform
American Craftsman style
Art Nouveau
Modernism
Prairie School
Scandinavian design
influencedBy Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
surface form: Augustus Pugin

Gothic Revival
John Ruskin
medieval guild system
pre-industrial craftsmanship
romanticism
startTime late 19th century

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Barry Parker architecturalStyle Arts and Crafts movement
Biltmore Village architecturalStyle Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts architecture
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts
Charles Voysey architecturalStyle Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts architecture
C. R. Ashbee associatedWith Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts movement in London
Charles Voysey associatedWith Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts aesthetic in Britain
Pre-Raphaelite art associatedWith Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts decorative design
Abramtsevo Estate associatedWithMovement Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts movement in Russia
Victorian aesthetics associatedWithMovement Arts and Crafts movement
C. R. Ashbee genre Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts design
Charles Voysey hasCreativeInfluenceOn Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: Arts and Crafts interior design
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin influenced Arts and Crafts movement
John Ruskin influenced Arts and Crafts movement
Pre-Raphaelite art influenced Arts and Crafts movement
Walter Crane influenced Arts and Crafts movement
William Morris influenced Arts and Crafts movement
Adirondack Great Camps influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
American Craftsman style influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
American Craftsman style influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: English Arts and Crafts architecture
Art Nouveau influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Bauhaus influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Bauhaus movement influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Bernard Maybeck influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Charles Rennie Mackintosh influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Charles Voysey influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Edwardian architecture influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Edwardian railway stations influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Edwin Lutyens influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Glasgow Style influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Gustav Stickley influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: English Arts and Crafts movement
Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Modern Style influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Modern architecture influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Modernisme català influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
National Romantic architecture influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Prairie School influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Secession influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: British Arts and Crafts movement
Secession style influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: British Arts and Crafts movement
Shingle style architecture influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: English Arts and Crafts movement
Stile Liberty influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Vienna Secession influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
this entity surface form: British Arts and Crafts movement
Walter Gropius influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Art Workers Guild inspiredBy Arts and Crafts movement
Deutscher Werkbund inspiredBy Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society movement Arts and Crafts movement
Bernard Maybeck movement Arts and Crafts movement
C. R. Ashbee movement Arts and Crafts movement
Charles Rennie Mackintosh movement Arts and Crafts movement
Charles Voysey movement Arts and Crafts movement
Edwin Lutyens movement Arts and Crafts movement