It lasted from about 1890 to 1920 and was a style prominent in america in the u s in a country that praises democracy the movement was most appealing to the middle class.
Arts and crafts style furniture characteristics.
What we know today as the craftsman style was originally a subset of the arts and crafts movement and is short for craftsmanship.
Arts and crafts style furniture featured individually crafted pieces heavily influenced by the vernacular architecture of the english countryside as well as by natural motifs.
Styles range from traditional mission to bungalow and most pieces are available in solid cherry or quarter sawn oak.
In general furniture done in the arts and crafts style is very rectilinear meaning it has many straight lines often with an emphasis on.
Appearance of arts and crafts movement furniture.
Simple straight line construction in mission style joinery is exposed showing the skill and precision required to assemble a piece.
The arts crafts movement blossomed in the late victorian period an aesthetic response to industrialization.