![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, and not surprisingly, while Craftsman architecture and decorative arts flourished for more a generation, its rise in popularity through those years can be attributed to some of the very infrastructure and technology that the earliest Arts & Crafts founders eschewed-mass production and formulaic style. By the turn of the 19th century, the once-nascent movement spawned wider-spread converts, including tastemakers in the United States who ultimately shaped the Craftsman style, which in its purest form sought to harmonize form and function while strengthening connections between one’s home and nature. ![]() Their philosophy celebrated the original, the novel, and a recalling of a pre-capitalist era in which the individual artisan left his (and her) handcrafted marks on art, decorative arts, and architecture-manifestations of skill lost in the wake of machine-made, banal details that offered mass-produced goods to a growing middle class. Proponents of the Arts & Crafts movement-a 19th-century English aesthetic born out of disdain for the socially detrimental aspects of the Industrial Revolution and the excessive ornamentation of the later Victorian Age-today, if they were on Instagram, would be considered among the most successful of social influencers. ![]()
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