Klimt's Elaborate, Budget-Busting Art Show Revived in Vienna for Centenary Oct 3, 2008
Klimt's circle was inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, espousing the idea of introducing art into all aspects of life. Some of the beautiful examples of mosaics, textiles, glassware, silverware and furniture would sell well if they were mass-produced today (and some of them probably have been. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
No McMansions in Cornwall Oct 3, 2008
It is the newest house, built in 2000, and is emblematic of the Arts and Crafts movement. All proceeds benefit the Cornwall Housing Corporation, an affordable housing group. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
From its new Germantown office, Magnolia Homes starting two high-end subdivisions Aug 27, 2008
The homebuilder will soon offer homes designed in the spirit of Louisiana architect A. Hays Town's style and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Architect Jeff Bramlett of Bramlett Custom Residential Design, who will design the homes at Chateau Gardens, says these historic styles are very distinct, yet people will feel comfortable with them. (Memphis Business Journal, TN)
Welcome to the neighborhood Aug 3, 2008
The World Link: Welcome to the neighborhood. Welcome to the neighborhood. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Ornate restoration's cost worth it to owners Jun 28, 2008
The Arts and Crafts movement flourished around 1900. It refers not so much to a specific look or style as to the way materials were gathered and worked by talented craftsmen. (AZCentral -- Style)
An arts-and-crafts odyssey Jun 17, 2008
Leslie says she and her husband "became really interested in the arts and crafts movement and the furniture and pottery that goes along with it.". They researched the movement and their home, searching the Victoria city archives and spending holidays checking out local architecture. (Globe and Mail)
Riordan Mansion state park Apr 8, 2008
Staying true to the Arts and Crafts movement, the mansion features open floor plans and built-in bookshelves and cabinets ... Visitors can take self-guided tours of the west side of the mansion to see exhibits about the Riordan family, the Arts and Crafts movement and other local attractions. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Mosaics at Westminster Cathedral Apr 6, 2008
The architect Robert Weir Schultz, also linked to the Arts and Crafts Movement, (1860-1951) was invited to design mosaics for St Andrew's Chapel. The shows St Andrew as patron saint of Scotland and Greece. (Suite101.com)
State-wide honor Mar 21, 2008
"Ernest O. Brostrom was very interested in the arts and crafts movement, and the prairie movement with Frank Lloyd Wright. Even though the building is definitely on the exterior significantly gothic, with the base and arches and four-square bell tower, he also included some detailing in the interior that's very much arts and crafts style.". The cornerstone of the church was built in 1924 and construction was completed in 1925. (SunOnline)
Home tours: Delight in the details Mar 10, 2008
But it's emblematic of the Arts and Crafts movement so popular at the turn of the 20th century a time of master builders, inventive carpenters and owners wanting to live in the city but with a touch of a country setting ... The McMurtie/Witherow House makes great use of wood and other natural materials, popularized in the Arts and Crafts movement imported from England. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
ART IN ‘THE REAL WORLD’ Jan 4, 2008
The school was founded on the arts and crafts movement, she said. They could have done a better job of marketing that. (Dundalk Eagle, MD)
Art & architecture offerings for the holidays Dec 12, 2007
Morgan came of age as the Arts and Crafts movement was blossoming in reaction to Victorian-era excess, and while she was fluent in many styles, the handmade Craftsman aesthetic informed her work for the next 40 years. With her mentor Bernard Maybeck, she was a leader in the First Bay Tradition, a regional design movement that espoused the honest use of natural materials and the marriage of historical forms and traditional craftsmanship with modern building materials and construction methods. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Brad Pitt's mission; Dec 5, 2007
Over the years, Pitt has bought old California Craftsman houses and restored them, gathering every bit of literature he could find on the Arts and Crafts movement and its most famous local architects, Charles and Henry Greene. The actor became so interested in their iconic homes that he teamed up with scholar and restoration expert Randell L. Makinson to produce the most extensive book to date on the restoration of Greene ne's Blacker House, which had been stripped and abandoned. (Los Angeles Times)
Bergenia will capture your heart Nov 5, 2007
A remnant of the arts and crafts movement, many of the still living colonies are true legacies of the original landscapes. Among the most memorable, easily recognized and too rarely appreciated is Bergenia crassifolia, a fleshy leaf perennial. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Virginia architectural historian on tap for Decorative Arts and Preservation Forum Nov 1, 2007
Wilson has been the curator and author for major museum exhibitions such as he American Renaissance, 1876-1917, he Art that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, he Machine Age in America, 1918-1941, and he Making of Virginia Architecture. He also is the author or joint author of 16 books that deal with American and modern architecture. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
California College of the Arts at 100: Its writing program sizzles Aug 20, 2007
A cabinetmaker in his native Germany, Meyer was involved in the Arts and Crafts movement, which insisted on connecting the creative fields to one another, and on their potential for fostering positive social change. He immigrated to San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century, established a workshop and taught at UC Berkeley and the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Back to the future Aug 11, 2007
"We must have a turn at CARPETS next," Pugin wrote to Crace; "let us reform them altogether." As so often, Pugin's ideas were fertile in application for generations yet unborn, for the Arts and Crafts movement and even for modernism. Hill's absorbing book is a marvellously clear guide through the agitated density of Pugin's life and through the volatile worlds of early Victorian taste, politics and theology. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Robert R. Wark, 82; former director of art collections at the Huntington Library Jun 12, 2007
To the amazement of many Huntington watchers, Wark supervised the planning and construction of the Virginia Steele Scott Gallery for American art, the establishment of a related study center and the addition of a gallery devoted to the Arts and Crafts movement in California. John Murdoch, who serves in Wark's former position, said that his predecessor "made this place made the art collections of the Huntington into a serious and functioning art museum, as Mr. Huntington had himself intended.". (Los Angeles Times)
A relaxing Sedona inn Jun 5, 2007
Most pieces reflect the square, clean lines of the Arts and Crafts movement, and many spent the three previous decades in the Segners' home in Pasadena, Calif. The same goes for the artwork: The Segners found many of the pieces during decades of scouring flea markets and garage sales. (AZCentral -- Travel)
An art house revival May 4, 2007
" It spoke in an architectural polyglot. The home, originally on 20 acres of citrus groves, is defined by a colonnaded side porch facing the street. A terrace runs the length of the second story, giving the house the profile of a Southern country house. The Batchelder tiled fountain on the back patio has the decoration of the Arts and Crafts movement popular in turn-of-the-century Pasadena. A 1919 addition to the house is Spanish-influenced, with a winding staircase leading from a second-story... (Los Angeles Times)
Name the Early-20th-Century Artist Apr 15, 2007
tte (or Vienna Workshop ), the arts and crafts movement that espoused design of jewelry, fabric, ceramics, pottery, and furniture characterized by simplistic shapes, sparse lines, and geometric patterns. In the autumn of 1918, the Spanish flu epidemic that claimed more than 20,000,000 lives in Europe reached Vienna. (Suite101.com)
Furniture as artistic expression (Ann Geracimos) Mar 21, 2007
Working out of a converted garage in a sublimely forested area of Manassas, he gives full credit to the Arts and Crafts movement for being his technical and spiritual guide ... The Arts and Crafts movement is associated with early-20th-century American craftsmen who sought a fresh approach beyond the outmoded Victorian styles inherited from Europe, where the movement had its roots. (Washington Times, DC)
Women of substance: cabdriver, muse, and jewel thief Mar 11, 2007
Movies Restaurants Food Calendar Music Theater/Arts TV Books Celebrity news Games. Sister MineBy Tawni O DellShaye Areheart, 405 pp. (Boston Globe)
I Did It My Way Feb 28, 2007
But it is the Arts and Crafts Movement that occurred after the revolution that relates to fashion. In the early 20th century, people began to invest their time and money into handmade items as a counter-revolution. (The Daily Campus, CT)
Kylie set to be a No 1 hit at the V&A Feb 8, 2007
Her cultural significance escapes many critics, but an exhibition devoted to Kylie Minogue is already breaking box office records at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Despite grumblings about dumbing down, more than 4,000 people have booked advance tickets for the show, which opens tomorrow - more than for any exhibition in the museum s history. (Times Online)
Closure threat to Morris museum Jan 28, 2007
Treasures from the Arts and Crafts movement worth millions of pounds, including Morris's original sketches for the acanthus-leaf wallpaper, a design classic, and his woodpecker tapestry, will be lost to the public and potentially put up for sale, along with bronzes by Auguste Rodin and work by pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Waltham Forest borough council, in east London, has cut back the opening hours of the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow to save money,... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
SCAD to save mansion Jan 15, 2007
The Queen Anne house was designed by architect Gottfried L. Norrman, who was familiar with the arts and crafts movement that influenced New South thinking. The arts and crafts philosophy contended that the industrial revolution had disconnected individuals from their creativity. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Preserving Mountain Lakes architectural heritage Jan 7, 2007
Hapgood adhered to the simplistic philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement, at the height of its popularity in 1910 when he started building. Using local materials such as chestnut milled on site and boulders from the hills, he built homes that fit into the landscape on natural rather than graded terrain with narrow roads curved to fit the contours of the land. (Madison Eagle, NJ)
