ARTS & CRAFTS, 1870-1910 An influential movement, Arts & Crafts attempted to re-establish the skills of craftmanship that were under threat from mass production and industrialisation.
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The style’s main advocate, WilliamMorris, believed factory production destroyed natural creativity and the solution to this lay in themedieval past and its architecture. The Emphasis of Arts & Crafts architecture was honesty, function, need and simplicity without any need for unnecessary adornment. PhilipWebb, Richard Lethaby and Charles Voysey were all architects who drove this style. Whilst the majority of the Arts & Crafts buildings were domestic, the architects of the movement also addressed churches, museums and commercial buildings. Arts & Crafts buildings were built with ordinary people in mind but they were so expensive to construct that only the wealthy could afford them. As a result, the Arts & Crafts movement was relatively short lived and by the early 1900s was in decline. The Arts & Crafts ideology; truth tomaterial, structure and function and its Socialist principles, were a catalyst for a number of 20th century designs.
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