Bergenia will capture your heart Nov 5, 2007
A remnant of the arts and crafts movement, many of the still living colonies are true legacies of the original landscapes. Among the most memorable, easily recognized and too rarely appreciated is Bergenia crassifolia, a fleshy leaf perennial. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Virginia architectural historian on tap for Decorative Arts and Preservation Forum Nov 1, 2007
Wilson has been the curator and author for major museum exhibitions such as he American Renaissance, 1876-1917, he Art that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, he Machine Age in America, 1918-1941, and he Making of Virginia Architecture. He also is the author or joint author of 16 books that deal with American and modern architecture. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Hidden treasures Aug 29, 2007
Today the home gives a glimpse of the American Arts and Crafts movement as understood and lived by one of its main proponents. From diamond-paned windows to dark rooms with plain but heavy earth-toned furnishings, it melds Shaker functionality with a German folk ethos. (Carroll County Times)
California College of the Arts at 100: Its writing program sizzles Aug 20, 2007
A cabinetmaker in his native Germany, Meyer was involved in the Arts and Crafts movement, which insisted on connecting the creative fields to one another, and on their potential for fostering positive social change. He immigrated to San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century, established a workshop and taught at UC Berkeley and the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Back to the future Aug 11, 2007
"We must have a turn at CARPETS next," Pugin wrote to Crace; "let us reform them altogether." As so often, Pugin's ideas were fertile in application for generations yet unborn, for the Arts and Crafts movement and even for modernism. Hill's absorbing book is a marvellously clear guide through the agitated density of Pugin's life and through the volatile worlds of early Victorian taste, politics and theology. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Restorations shine in sun-filled Ashmont classic Jul 29, 2007
The house, which Kaye has lived in and been working on for 19 years, was designed by English architect Whitney Lewis in the bold expression of the early Arts and Crafts movement. The light-filled double living room has a total of seven windows on three walls. (Boston Globe)
InvitingHome.com Launches Traditional American Home Dcor Collection Jul 20, 2007
The new corbel collections are influenced by, and exhibit features of, the American Arts and Crafts movement with their unique simplicity and classic sophistication ... The new corbel collections are influenced by, and exhibit features of, the American Arts and Crafts movement with their unique simplicity and classic sophistication. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Science » Jul 3, 2007
Could it represent the dawn of the arts and crafts movement for the digital age or open the gateway to the destruction of intellectual property rights and copyright. Future eastern United States summers look much hotter than originally predicted with daily highs about 10 degrees warmer than in recent years by the mid-2080s, a new NASA study says. (CNN)
Exhibit showcases the romantic era of the Pre-Raphaelites Jun 14, 2007
The Pre-Raphaelite school, founded by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1848, burned brightly, if ever so briefly, but its impact on the art and textile world was indelible, influencing the designs of William Morris and creation of the Arts and Crafts Movement, before falling into disregard with the rise of modernism. The Pre-Raphaelites are the focus of a new exhibit this month at the San Diego Museum of Art. (North County Times)
Robert R. Wark, 82; former director of art collections at the Huntington Library Jun 12, 2007
To the amazement of many Huntington watchers, Wark supervised the planning and construction of the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery for American art, the establishment of a related study center and the addition of a gallery devoted to the Arts and Crafts movement in California. John Murdoch, who serves in Wark's former position, said that his predecessor "made this place made the art collections of the Huntington into a serious and functioning art museum, as Mr. Huntington had himself intended.". (Los Angeles Times)
A relaxing Sedona inn Jun 5, 2007
Most pieces reflect the square, clean lines of the Arts and Crafts movement, and many spent the three previous decades in the Segners' home in Pasadena, Calif. The same goes for the artwork: The Segners found many of the pieces during decades of scouring flea markets and garage sales. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Pre-Raphaelites art: Big 'Dreams' Jun 2, 2007
And some of its decorative impulses the artists painted furniture and designed wallpaper, among other things were the catalyst for the Arts and Crafts movement that swept across America as well as England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Women outnumber men by far in this work. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Talking Rock house says a mouthful May 26, 2007
Architect Daniel Eastburn, principal of Design Barbarians Architects, Phoenix, gave the floor plan an openness characteristic of the Arts and Crafts movement, a style popular in the late 1880s through the mid-1920s ... In Pasadena, where architects Charles and Henry Greene expanded the Arts and Crafts movement with bungalow-style homes, he found that period's examples. (AZCentral -- Home)
An art house revival May 4, 2007
" It spoke in an architectural polyglot. The home, originally on 20 acres of citrus groves, is defined by a colonnaded side porch facing the street. A terrace runs the length of the second story, giving the house the profile of a Southern country house. The Batchelder tiled fountain on the back patio has the decoration of the Arts and Crafts movement popular in turn-of-the-century Pasadena. A 1919 addition to the house is Spanish-influenced, with a winding staircase leading from a second-story... (Los Angeles Times)
Mission-style New Haven clock is circa 1907 Apr 16, 2007
The clock belonging to J.L.H. is New Haven's San Pedro model and is in the so-called "Mission" style that is also associated with the American Arts and Crafts Movement. There is some disagreement as to where the term "Mission" comes from _ some say it is derived from the simple style used in the Franciscan Missions of California, while others say that those who worked in this style felt they were "on a mission" to reform American tastes. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Name the Early-20th-Century Artist Apr 15, 2007
tte (or Vienna Workshop ), the arts and crafts movement that espoused design of jewelry, fabric, ceramics, pottery, and furniture characterized by simplistic shapes, sparse lines, and geometric patterns. In the autumn of 1918, the Spanish flu epidemic that claimed more than 20,000,000 lives in Europe reached Vienna. (Suite101.com)
How I fell for the Cotswolds Apr 1, 2007
Kelmscott, the summer home of William Morris, has quite a modest garden, with a three-hole privy in the back-more than you want to know about the leader of the Arts and Crafts movement. The gift shop is quite an ambitious enterprise, selling needlepoint, postcards, tea cosies, dish towels, wrapping paper, and the like, all in Morris's designs. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Furniture as artistic expression (Ann Geracimos) Mar 21, 2007
Working out of a converted garage in a sublimely forested area of Manassas, he gives full credit to the Arts and Crafts movement for being his technical and spiritual guide ... The Arts and Crafts movement is associated with early-20th-century American craftsmen who sought a fresh approach beyond the outmoded Victorian styles inherited from Europe, where the movement had its roots. (Washington Times, DC)
Women of substance: cabdriver, muse, and jewel thief Mar 11, 2007
Movies Restaurants Food Calendar Music Theater/Arts TV Books Celebrity news Games. Sister MineBy Tawni O DellShaye Areheart, 405 pp. (Boston Globe)
I Did It My Way Feb 28, 2007
But it is the Arts and Crafts Movement that occurred after the revolution that relates to fashion. In the early 20th century, people began to invest their time and money into handmade items as a counter-revolution. (The Daily Campus, CT)
Artisan Lakes development now taking shape Feb 26, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007. The site plan for Artisan Lakes by Taylor Woodrow is shown. (Herald-Tribune)
Off the road with David Rago Feb 9, 2007
The Arts and Crafts Movement meant to transform society from the inside out," through simple but beautiful objects made by artisans who enjoyed their work. As a young dealer, he bought and sold as much as he could. "I bought my first piece of Rookwood with my rent money. It cost $100. (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
Kylie set to be a No 1 hit at the V&A Feb 8, 2007
Her cultural significance escapes many critics, but an exhibition devoted to Kylie Minogue is already breaking box office records at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Despite grumblings about dumbing down, more than 4,000 people have booked advance tickets for the show, which opens tomorrow - more than for any exhibition in the museum s history. (Times Online)
Read full story Feb 1, 2007
Miller described the home as an interesting example of the rustic arts and crafts movement of the early 20th century. The group noted that unlike the many older homes in Ellensburg that were built from plans purchased from catalogs, Zetzsche designed and built this home himself. (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Closure threat to Morris museum Jan 28, 2007
Treasures from the Arts and Crafts movement worth millions of pounds, including Morris's original sketches for the acanthus-leaf wallpaper, a design classic, and his woodpecker tapestry, will be lost to the public and potentially put up for sale, along with bronzes by Auguste Rodin and work by pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Waltham Forest borough council, in east London, has cut back the opening hours of the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow to save money,... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
SCAD to save mansion Jan 15, 2007
The Queen Anne house was designed by architect Gottfried L. Norrman, who was familiar with the arts and crafts movement that influenced New South thinking ... Other decorations are straight from mail-order catalogs and were delivered by rail, in keeping with the American arts and crafts movement, which favored mass production to keep prices low so average people could afford nice things. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
New Sarasota art gallery offers connections Jan 8, 2007
Monday, January 8, 2007. STAFF PHOTO / DAN WAGNER. (Herald-Tribune)
Preserving Mountain Lakes architectural heritage Jan 7, 2007
Hapgood adhered to the simplistic philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement, at the height of its popularity in 1910 when he started building. Using local materials such as chestnut milled on site and boulders from the hills, he built homes that fit into the landscape on natural rather than graded terrain with narrow roads curved to fit the contours of the land. (Madison Eagle, NJ)
Lecture series to be presented by BAC, Humanities Iowa Dec 30, 2006
Japanese inspired esthetic principles, the arts and crafts movement and Gothic Revival architecture all had major influences on their work. Behrens is an editor and writer for periodicals and books. (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, IA)
Esherick carved out his niche Dec 1, 2006
He may have been influenced by German Romanticism, the American Arts and Crafts movement, and cubism, but his work stands apart from all of those movements. Like Mark Twain, who allegedly set the course for the American novel, Wharton Esherick created a new direction for American woodworking. (Ardmore Main Line Life, PA)
Wright restorations Nov 19, 2006
A slideshow exploring the Wright legacy in Buffalo and a parallel revival of a nearby center for the American Arts and Crafts movement. MORE COVERAGE. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Styling California as an Eden Oct 29, 2006
" The exhibition is, in part, a send-off to retiring senior curator Harvey Jones, an authority on their work. "Its been 22 years since the last exhibition. A lot of people did not see it then, and a lot of people have come to an age that they would be interested in it," Jones said. The exhibition includes nearly 150 of the Mathewses paintings, murals, carved frames, graphic designs and illustrations along with their furniture: a grand piano, screens, bed, chests, jars and boxes, all decorated... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Weekend Guide Oct 26, 2006
Women of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America," with Wendy Kaplan, 1 p.m.; "Distinctive Desk Sets: Useful Ornament from Tiffany Studios," a selection of nine desk sets, through April 29, 2007.; "Riverlife Task Force Project: Connections: The West End Pedestrian Bridge Competition," through Dec. 14. View the six finalist proposals for the project at the Heinz Architectural Center; "Forum 57: Luisa Lambri and Ernesto Neto," Italian photographer and Brazilian sculptor respectively, through Nov.... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
SHOOTING 90 AT EA COUNTRY CLUB Oct 13, 2006
Exposed beams in the dining room and stone and mortar pillars in the now enclosed porch continue to show the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement on the builders. While many area courses are owned by outside corporations, the East Aurora Country Club is member-owned, as it has been from the start. (East Aurora Advertiser, NY)
What we need to do now is tell the world Oct 9, 2006
We have a glorious modern art museum, a landmark parks system and East Aurora's Roycroft center - home of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Adding to the lure is the one-size-fits-all attraction of Niagara Falls. (Buffalo News)
More Than Just the Grand Canyon Sep 24, 2006
Known as the father of the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 20th century, the Wisconsin native eschewed ornate designs and pursued a simpler, more functional approach to furniture-making. You can check out two of his desks, close up, in this side of the mansion. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Life)
Proof that we have upscale tourist allure Sep 16, 2006
The historic canal terminus and the Martin Complex are big fish in an overstocked cultural pond, with gems such as Louis Sullivan's Guaranty Building and H.H. Richardson's towers, the startling Albright-Knox gallery, Underground Railroad sites and East Aurora's Roycroft Campus - birthplace of America's Arts and Crafts movement. It is enough to keep upscale tourists busy for days. (Buffalo News)
TOUCHED BY TILE Sep 3, 2006
" After learning the basics of ceramics at the College of the Redwoods in Eureka, Bryan apprenticed at an artisanal tile company in Albany, N.Y. The firm's owner had learned the craft at the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, Pa., founded by Henry Chapman Mercer, a hero of the Arts and Crafts movement in America. Mercer founded the works out of a fear that the Industrial Revolution would render the techniques used in handmade ceramics extinct. Mercer designed all the handmade tiles... (San Francisco Chronicle)
A jewel of modern architecture Aug 26, 2006
He was to modernism what William Morris was to the Arts and Crafts movement," Mr. Bergdoll said. The architects integrated the home with its two-acre setting. "That house is as much a part of its site as Fallingwater. The driveway makes that sweeping curve. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
BLOG BRINGS THE WORLD TO ROYCROFT Aug 18, 2006
In the past four months, Arts and Crafts Movement fans from across the globe have registered to keep up with the Roycroft ... It's sort of like Mecca to people who are fans of the Arts and Crafts Movement. (East Aurora Advertiser, NY)
Weekend Hotlist Jul 27, 2006
The notable artists were Edward Coley Burne Jones (1833-98) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) and what they did -- according to the press notes for the new exhibition at the Frick Art & Historical Center -- was "create a unique artistic movement in mid-19th-century Great Britain based on retrieving artistic forms from the Middle Ages -- the time before the Renaissance master Raphael -- and set the stage for the Arts and Crafts movement." Their subjects were drawn from classical mythology and... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Twice a year the Siskiyou Woodcraft Guild convenes to show their work and celebrate their art with the community. Jul 22, 2006
The piece I m entering] is my own design based on the arts and crafts movement. I cut into the middle of a board to get the grain pattern I wanted. (Ashland Daily Tidings, OR)
More of this story Jul 22, 2006
The work, called "My Duty Towards My Neighbor/My Duty Towards God" is derivative of the Arts and Crafts Movement in America, Cutler said. The church sold the original to make needed repairs to the church and to care for elderly parishioners, Cutler said. (Newport Daily News, RI)
At an Atlanta museum, the history of paper unfolds Jul 13, 2006
Also in this category are delicate Chinese paintings on pith paper ( erroneously called ``rice paper " ) that were brought to New England by sailors in the 19th century.China is credited with the invention of paper, about 2,000 years ago. The collection presents the history of paper like a story that unfolds chronologically. Through artifacts and text presented in beautifully lighted display cases, one can see how paper evolved as a material in Japan,Korea, Tibet, Europe -- including Germany,... (Boston Globe)
Historic building bought by developer Jul 9, 2006
In 1914 Bakke, who over his career designed a number of prominent local buildings including Franklin and Alberton schools and the Forestry Building at the University of Montana, employed features of the arts and crafts movement for Lincoln School. Those include the stone and brick detailing, its roof line with exposed eaves and supporting brackets, as well as the building's overall massing and look. (Missoulian, MT)
Beat the heat on a tour of cool kitchens Jun 23, 2006
The Arts and Crafts movement thrived from the late 19th century to the beginning of World War I. It is characterized by natural wood tones with a matte sheen. Glass doors are a popular feature. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Outrage as MP ignores drought restrictions to water estate Jun 19, 2006
The late 19th Century property was designed in the Elizabethan style by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, and was formerly the home of garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. She was responsible for the elegant rose garden and lines of rhododendrons. (Daily Mail - UK)
CERCA: Step into Flagstaff's Past May 28, 2006
Furniture in a mansion office shows the sturdy and unpretentious style that was the Arts and Crafts Movement ... I'm especially interested in their Craftsman-style furniture manufactured by Gustav Stickley, who led the Arts and Crafts Movement that became the favorite of wealthy Westerners in the early 20th century. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Life)
HomeArama List May 20, 2006
Green, blue and gold tile behind the stove is from Pewabic Pottery in Michigan, which was founded in 1903 during the Arts and Crafts movement. The tiles feature a unique dusty glaze. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Bungalow beauty May 7, 2006
California house style is tied to the Arts and Crafts movement ... Bungalows are closely associated with the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Fresno Bee -- Real Estate)
Mission statement May 4, 2006
While several of the mammoth showrooms looked as if they had been assembled by followers of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, less clear was why a show that is intended as a harbinger of living rooms and bedrooms of the future was looking back 100 years at the Arts and Crafts movement ... I really like the Arts and Crafts movement, especially the Prairie style, because it's really different from typical Arts and Crafts style," says Spector, who has also designed for Crate & Barrel, Williams-Sonoma, and... (Boston Globe)
Set in stone and tile May 2, 2006
Revered as one of the nation's foremost experts in the California Arts and Crafts movement, Winter seems as well matched for this house as Batchelder's earthy, understated tiles are to the Craftsmans of the early 20th century. To comprehend the timelessness of Batchelder his willingness to "play down excess," Winter says one only need step into Winter's living room, where the tiled fireplace emanates warmth, richness and a lived-in elegance. (Los Angeles Times)
- The verdict on the V&A's blockbuster modernism show Apr 11, 2006
Tracing a historical route, we might follow Voltaire's Doctor Pangloss, and say that the Enlightenment led to William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement, which led both to the Garden Cities of Ebenezer Howard and to the Bauhaus, which led to fascist architecture under Mussolini and to the podiums and stadiums of Nazi Germany, without which we would never have had Stevenage town centre. All for the best, then, in the best of all possible worlds. (Guardian Unlimited)
Not just a nice collection of furniture -- de Young show exposes depth of Arts and Crafts aesthetic Mar 19, 2006
The engines of contemporary mass marketing have flattened the Arts and Crafts movement to tinny interior decorating nostalgia ... As evoked by the exhibition, drawn primarily from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Arts and Crafts movement, like one of its textile motifs, grew in many aesthetic directions and entwined with the parochial ambitions of artists and designers across the world. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Awakening of Arts and Crafts of what Mar 19, 2006
" The movement, as distinct as the regions of the world that encouraged it, went beyond mere style. Its goal was to pave the way for better-quality machine-made goods as well as an affinity with nature. The notion was fully embraced in 1890 and the decades that followed by European workshops and prewar schools such as the Bauhaus in Germany. The Arts and Crafts era clearly heralded modernism. In the United States, Arts and Crafts ideas flourished separately on each coast in the early 1900s, but... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Arts and crafts Feb 26, 2006
Buying Renting Recent Sales Place an ad Luxury Living Community data Mortgage Commercial Moving Guides. ARCHITECTURAL STYLES. (Boston Globe)
Global shopping is all the vogue (Cynthia Grenier) Feb 25, 2006
Editor Patricia Poore announces in her editor's letter that the publication will be appearing four times yearly and will be devoted entirely to the arts and crafts movement. It also will include art nouveau, the British art movements of the late 19th century, plus international arts and crafts and contemporary design. (Washington Times)
Diary Of An Eco-Builder Jan 25, 2006
William Morris founded the Arts and Crafts movement as a late-19th-century response to industrialisation and mass production ... But if Tree House boasts some qualities of the Arts and Crafts movement, does it also suffer from its weaknesses. (The Independent, UK)
ALPHONSE MUCHA: Modern, not ModernistBy Matthew Larking Jan 12, 2006
Nouveau continued in the direction of the earlier Arts and Crafts movement that was prominent in the 1850s and '60s in Britain and later spread throughout Europe and North America. The focus was on unifying the various arts and rooting them in utility as a counterweight to the demoralizing and unaesthetic industrialization of products. (Japan Times Online, Japan)
