Architectural styles: Arts and Crafts

Arts and Crafts was an influential movement of the late 19th century which attempted to re-establish the skills of craftsmanship threatened by mass production and industrialisation. It came about as a reaction against the eclectic, historical styles and the imitative industrial products that the Industrial Revolution had created and stood for traditional craftsmanship, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. Arts and Crafts is the root of the Modern Style, the British expression of what later came to be called the Art Nouveau movement, which it strongly influenced. style.

Examples of Arts and Crafts architecture: Tjolöholm (pictured)

Photo: Netha Hussain, Wikimedia Commons