Arts & craftsmovement
Arts & crafts movement
Arts & crafts movement
The arts and Crafts
movement
Was inspired by a crisis of conscience. Its motivations were social and moral. For a brief period at the end of the 19C British design theory enjoyed
unprecedented
Success.
it represented the triumph of the individual craftsman. Fundamental to the movements thinking was a belief that mechanical progress meant the destruction
of purpose, sense and Life. leading supporters and exponents were John Ruskin &
William Morris.
The Printers Press. Porcelain with layers of gold, droplets of silver/copper on press. Copper handles and many lustres within the drawers and the their contents.£525Sold
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