Arts and Crafts Movement

by Wendy Kaplan and Elizabeth Cumming

Book Overview

This volume surveys the highly influential Arts and Crafts design movement - which embraced architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and books - in Britain, America and Europe. Although the styles adopted by the movement were diverse, its leading architects, artists and craft-designers, including William Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Josef Hoffman and Eliel Saarinen, were united in promoting the moral superiority of "honest" design...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500202486
• ISBN13: 9780500202487
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.3"