What is “Arts and Crafts” furniture?
Birth from a unique American movement for art and craft, craftsman or mission, furniture has a significant organic attraction. Individual craftsmen emphasized utilitarian design, elegant structure and handmade joinery that complemented architecture and interior design of craftsmen in the early 20 years.
Inspired by the French Secev and critic of British Victorian culture, the Arts and Crafts movement began around 1880 and increased to a popular height in America in 1900-1919. Founding members such as Gustav Stickley, William Morris and Greene and Greene Brothers have rejected the decoration and grandeur of the Victorian decoration. They argued that other current styles of masked structures and accept cheap reproductions rather than authentic structures. When the United States moved towards the mass production of household goods, these designers wanted to return to pre -industrial individualism that appreciated talented wood and family Materials.
Craftsman Furniture is SnAdno recognizable by open vertical slats, thick skeleton and visible chips in joints with mortar and cap. Even built -in cabinets and libraries can be identified by hand -forged, hammer copper hinges and latches. The center for the production of this furniture was Grand Rapids, Michigan, as a representative of Central America. There was a lot of hard wood, the most popular oak. The lumber was a quarter, a method of cutting the boards that show the grain. There is no unnecessary ornament such as tilted wood or woodcarving. The construction emerges organically from function. The braces called the Corbel console show a decorative function rather than a range of rosettes.
Rustic, durable and deliberately middle class, Arts and Crafts Furniture was supposed to improve comfort in the average living room and be handed over from one generation another. The furniture, designed specifically for use in Craftsman houses, integrates into comfortable, timeRun of illuminated open rooms. Basic pieces would include excessive Morris chairs, with ordinary leather upholstery, passport and library with glass panels.
Thecraftsman movement has prepared a way for more rich design, such as Frank Lloyd Wright, who also wanted architecture, furniture and accessories to feel integrated with their surroundings. Art and crafts also have undeniable links to fruit philosophy and style that emphasized the simplicity and quality of heritage.