More Than a Revival
TODAY’S ARTS & CRAFTS sensibility reaches past reproductions and even interpretive work. It has spread beyond the cognoscenti, beyond those who know the history of the movement. Arts & Crafts tenets have been embraced widely. These include an understanding of the local and vernacular, an appreciation of traditional skills, sustainable practices, and a preference for “fewer, better things.” In both architecture and interior design, the current wave of Arts & Crafts is producing stunning, livable new houses. The Arts & Crafts Revival is about 45 years old—and thus more enduring than the original American movement of the early 20th century. Contemporary artists and craftspeople are producing work equal to and often better than that of a hundred years ago. It’s impossible not to appreciate the beauty and quality of their…
