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Arts and Crafts movement Information
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The Arts and Crafts movement was a British and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and a romantic idealization of the craftsman...


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The Architects' Journal
The Arts and Crafts Movement
02/15/2007: 740 words, approx. 3 pages
BOOK The Arts and Crafts Movement By Rosalind P Blakesley. Phaidon, 2006. £39.95 'The Arts and Crafts Movement came to a halt with the First World War,' writes Rosalind Blakesley. 'Conflicts between theory and practice' were a key factor in its demise, she...
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Art Business News
Arts and Crafts movement highlighted in exhibit.
11/01/2005: 320 words, approx. 1 pages
The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) presents through Jan. 22, "International Arts and Crafts," which was organized by the world-renowned Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The first of only two American venues, the exhibit features more than 300 objects from Great Britain--where...
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The New York Observer
Knobs for the Snobs
2/25/2007: 1,264 words, approx. 4 pages
The private-equity trader had to have the pumpkin-shaped doorknob in every room. He’d just bought an 1856 townhouse in the West Village, and he and his architect came upon a distinctive period knob in the apartment of one of the rent-regulated tenants that came with...
 


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How Does the Red House by Phillip Webb Embody the Arts and Crafts Movement?
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There was a change, due to a brotherhood of designers, in the balance of emphasis between style and method As a result of numerous discussions between the architect Philip Webb and the designer William Morris (1834-96) on a boat trip in France in 1859 the unique Red House in Bexleyheath, England was created as a residence for Morris himself. It is thought by many that the Red House is the definitive arts and crafts style house complying with the central conceptualisations originally visualised by Morris, W


 

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