Art And Craft Design Movement. Subsequently this style was taken up byAmerican designers with somewhat different results. The Arts Crafts movement left behind more than just the houses and decorative objects for which it is famousit also bequeathed a rich legacy of gardens.
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The Arts and Crafts style started as a search for aesthetic design and decoration and a reaction against the styles that were developed by machine-production.
A room decorated in the Arts and Crafts style by William Morris with furniture by Philip Webb. The Arts and Crafts Craftsman and Mission movement was an aesthetic reaction to the florid excesses of the late Victorian period. They tended to emphasize the qualities of the materials used truth to material. Arts and Crafts objects were simple in form without superfluous or excessive decoration and how they were constructed was often still visible.
