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Author
Publisher
V & A Publications
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A small-format introduction to the key characteristics of the modern world's Arts and Crafts movement cites its origins in social and industrial reforms that inspired designers, discussing how ideas from Europe, America, and Japan served to influence period furniture, textiles, jewelry, and more. -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this thoroughly revised edition of "Gardens of the arts and crafts movement", landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during the movement. Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from Great Britain and the United States, with an emphasis on the diversity of designers who helped forge a truly distinct approach to garden design. A visual feast of nearly...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
May Morris, youngest daughter of influential designer William Morris, was one of the leading female contributors to the Arts and Crafts Movement. She ran the embroidery department of her father's famous firm Morris & Co., and had a successful freelance career as a designer, maker, and exhibitor, founding the Women's Guild of Arts in 1907 and undertaking a lecture tour in the United States between 1909 and 1910. May's approach to embroidery was innovative...
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"William Morris is best known for his colorful wallpapers and textiles, inspired by the English forests and wild foliage where he grew up. But did you know this icon of the Arts and Crafts Movement was also a poet, a painter, a preservationist, an activist, an environmentalist, and a maker of many other beautiful useful things, like books?"--
"A poetic story about the life and work of William Morris, maker of beautiful, useful things, sure to engage...
13) William Morris
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"William Morris (1834-1896) was a pioneer of the Arts and Crafts Movement and is one of the most influential designers in British history. With his emphasis on originality, artistry and craftsmanship, Morris helped revolutionize the late Victorian interior, and initiated changes to the way we think about how things are made, what we own, our relationship with nature, and how we live and work that continue to be relevant in the 21st century. [...]...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson, V&A
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The leading figure of the Arts and Crafts Movement, William Morris (1834-1896) is one of the best-known and most popular of all British designers. A passionate advocate of craftsmanship over mass production, he designed a huge variety of objects, but it is his spectacular carpet, fabric, and wallpaper patterns that have continued to capture the popular imagination and influence interior designers and the decorative arts. Around six hundred such designs...
15) Arts & crafts
Author
Series
Publisher
Flame Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Arts & Crafts is a celebration of the design movement that started in Britain and spread around the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Depicting both well-known and unusual art and artifacts from this most fascinating of eras, this book provides a wealth of information about the lives and times of the designers, architects and artists who created them."--
Author
Publisher
American Federation of Arts
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the second half of the nineteenth century, three generations of young, rebellious artists and designers revolutionized the visual arts in Britain, engaging with and challenging the new industrial world around them. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, William Morris and his associates, and the champions of the Arts & Crafts movement offered a radical artistic and social vision that found inspiration in the pre-industrial past and came to decisively...
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