The arts & crafts home - Wendy Hitchmough

Interest in Arts and Crafts architecture, furniture and crafts has increased enormously in recent years. William Morris was the leading exponent of the movement, and his belief that anything of authentic value had to be made by people rather than machines was shared by many architects and designers of the time. The Arts and Crafts Home shows how the aesthetic values that lay behind the Arts and Crafts movement can be incorporated into contemporary life. Using over a hundred colour photographs and archive illustrations, The Arts and Crafts Home shows the wide range of styles adopted by the architects and designers of the period. Wendy Hitchmough adopts a room-by-room approach, focusing on the furniture, textiles and accessories that were the integral elements of a complete home. From the details of the door furniture in the drawing room to the proportions of the range in the kitchen, the respective rooms of the house are reviewed in the context for which they were intended. This sumptuously designed book uses specially commissioned photographs of houses in England and the US as well as offering a listing of Arts and Crafts homes to visit.