- Emerged from England in late Victorian Period
- Sought to improve standards of decorative design
- Did not promote particular style
- Advocated reform and critique of industrial labor as part of philosophy
Important People:
- A. W. N. Pugin
- 1812-1852
- designer
- promoted Gothic revival
- John Ruskin
- 1810-1900
- theorist
- art critic
- advocated medieval architecture
- William Morris
- 1834-1896
- figurehead of the movement
- socialist
- believed in the industrialization movement dehumanized the distance between designer and manufacturer
Movement in America
- First society began in Chicago's Hull House (1897).
- Undercurrent of Socialism
- didn't do more than create a few Utopian societies
- Rose Valley
- Founded by Philadelphian architect, William Lightfoot Price
- 1901
- Byrdcliffe
- Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead
- 1903
- These craftspeople used woodwork, pottery, textiles, and metalwork
- In urban society, the focus was on the education of women
- taught them craftwork and decorative work
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