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The Arts & Crafts Movement combined a reverence for natural materials and indigenous craft traditions with a commitment to producing works of art — works both beautiful and useful — for people's homes.

accident that the movement started in England where the industrial revolution was well on its way by the 1870s. It turned craftspeople and artisans into wage slaves herded into factories to mass-produce junk and ruin the landscape in the process. (The dark, Satanic Mills of William Blake's hymn "Jerusalem.")

The Arts & Crafts Movement actually began in England in the 1880s. It was inspired by William Morris and John Ruskin and was partly a reaction to the excesses of the industrial revolution. It also had a social agenda that involved repopulating the villages of England, restoring a sense of community and returning to a simpler, healthier life.

The movement spread (although the social agenda was lost in translation) to continental Europe, Scandinavia and then to America before its final appearance in the Mingei (Folk Arts) movement of Japan.

Of special interest in the de Young show were the four specially created rooms, each furnished in the Arts & Crafts style of the period. Two were from England — one rural and the other urban — another from America and the fourth from Japan, (dating from 1928 and recreated using recently discovered objects).

— Simon Watts

to define it in words, I would say the Arts & Crafts Movement combined a reverence for natural materials and indigenous craft traditions with a commitment to producing works of art — works both beautiful and useful — for people's homes. It's no

Josef Hoffmann Adjustable Armchair, circa 1908, byJ&JKohn.

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