Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was a reformist movement, at first inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, that was at its height between approximately 1880–1910. The movement influenced British decorative arts, architecture, cabinet making, crafts, and even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude Jekyll. Its best-known practitioners were William Morris, Charles Robert Ashbee, T. J. Cobden Sanderson, Walter Crane, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Christopher Dresser, Edwin Lutyens and artists in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Arts and Crafts movement was part of the major English aesthetic movement of the last years of the 19th century.

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John Ruskin - 1880 - 1910 - British - Decorative arts - Architecture - Cabinet making - Craft - Garden design - William Robinson - Gertrude Jekyll - William Morris - Charles Robert Ashbee - T. J. Cobden Sanderson - Walter Crane - Phoebe Anna Traquair - Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Christopher Dresser - Edwin Lutyens - Pre-Raphaelite - English - Aesthetic movement - 19th century

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In the United States, it should be noted, the term Arts and Crafts movement is often used to denote the style of interior design that prevailed between the dominant eras of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, or roughly the period from 1910 to 1925. This article does not deal with the American usage of the term.

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United States - Art Nouveau - Art Deco - 1925

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