Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement

by Kevin W. Tucker

An impressive new look at the iconic designs of the workshops of the patriarch of the American Arts and Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley

With its emphasis on social reform and simplicity in design---bold lines, honest use of materials, and redeeming qualities of handmade goods---the Arts and Crafts movement offered an antidote to the perceived ills of a rapidly changing world and the ornate and artificial Victorian aesthetic of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300118023
• ISBN13: 9780300118025
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.4" x 12.2"