-
Arts and Crafts Movement Started
The Arts and Crafts style is characterized by rectilinear design, simple, straight construction, and exposed joinery, often using medium or dark stained oak. -
Period: to
Arts and Crafts Furniture
-
Morris Chair
Morris Chair was a version of the reclining chair adapted by Morris & Co. from Ephraim Colman. -
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society promoted embroidery, fabrics, upholstery and furniture. The society's first president was Walter Crane. -
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
Architect who designed fabrics, tiles, ceramics, furniture and metalwork. Voysey's style combined simplicity with sophistication. -
Gustave Stickley: "The Craftsman"
Gustave Stickley's furniture (Craftsman furniture) was the first American furniture to have a big impact on the history of furniture development. -
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Arts and Crafts movement channeled the "complimentary and sympathetic movements " like the 'Prairie School' architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright. -
Craftsman Furniture Designs
The furniture was very durable from the use of mortise and tenon joinery. Craftsman Furniture only used the best hardwoods, mainly oak, and the use of quarter-sawn pieces that highlighted the wood grain. The furniture was treated with finishing techniques like treating the wood with ammonia to bring out the grain. -
Gustav Stickley
Stickley created a furniture line he offered to the middle class society. The furniture was made from ammonia-fumed quarter sawn white oak, as well as other mostly native woods.
