An
arts and crafts gallery providing a brief look at the exceptional
quality and superb design available to the arts and crafts collector.
The
arts and crafts designers rejected the banality and inferior quality
of industrially produced decorative arts by promoting a return to
a handcrafted medieval style craftsmanship. This can be seen in
works by artists such as William Morris, William de Morgan, Gustav
Stickley, Charles Ashbee and Charles Voysey. Typical motifs come
from traditional techniques with slat back chairs, leather upholstery,
turned feet, rush seating, enamelling, thick ceramic glazes and
hand hammered metalwork.
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Arts and Crafts andirons.