Editing Arts and Crafts movement (section)

==Architecture==
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|text=The movement ... represents in some sense a revolt against the hard mechanical conventional life and its insensibility to beauty (quite another thing to ornament). It is a protest against that so-called industrial progress which produces shoddy wares, the cheapness of which is paid for by the lives of their producers and the degradation of their users. It is a protest against the turning of men into machines, against artificial distinctions in art, and against making the immediate market value, or possibility of profit, the chief test of artistic merit. It also advances the claim of all and each to the common possession of beauty in things common and familiar, and would awaken the sense of this beauty, deadened and depressed as it now too often is, either on the one hand by luxurious superfluities, or on the other by the absence of the commonest necessities and the gnawing anxiety for the means of livelihood; not to speak of the everyday uglinesses to which we have accustomed our eyes, confused by the flood of false taste, or darkened by the hurried life of modern towns in which huge aggregations of humanity exist, equally removed from both art and nature and their kindly and refining influences.
|author=Walter Crane
|title=[[Wikisource:Arts and Crafts Essays/Of the Revival of Design and Handicraft|"Of The Revival of Design and Handicraft"]]
|source=''Arts and Crafts Essays'' (1893)<ref>{{cite wikisource |title=Arts and Crafts Essays |chapter=Of the Revival of Design and Handicraft |wslink=Arts_and_Crafts_Essays |last=Crane |first=Walter |authorlink=Walter Crane |editor-last=Morris |editor-first=William |editor-link=William Morris |date=1893 |publisher=Rivington, Percival, & Co. |location=London |wspages=12 |pages=12–14 |scan=Page:Arts & Crafts Essays.djvu/38}}</ref>
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Many of the leaders of the Arts and Crafts movement were trained as architects (e.g. William Morris, A. H. Mackmurdo, C. R. Ashbee, W. R. Lethaby) and it was on building that the movement had its most visible and lasting influence.

[[Red House, Bexleyheath|Red House]], in [[Bexleyheath]], London, designed for Morris in 1859 by architect [[Philip Webb]], exemplifies the early Arts and Crafts style, with its well-proportioned solid forms, wide porches, steep roof, pointed window arches, brick fireplaces and wooden fittings.  Webb rejected classical and other revivals of historical styles based on grand buildings, and based his design on British [[vernacular architecture]], expressing the texture of ordinary materials, such as stone and tiles, with an asymmetrical and picturesque building composition.<ref name=V&A>{{cite web|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/british_galleries/bg_styles/Style09a/index.html |title=Victoria and Albert Museum |publisher=Vam.ac.uk |access-date=28 August 2010}}</ref>

The London suburb of [[Bedford Park, London|Bedford Park]], built mainly in the 1880s and 1890s, has about 360 Arts and Crafts style houses and was once famous for its [[Aestheticism|Aesthetic]] residents. Several [[Almshouse]]s were built in the Arts and Crafts style, for example, [[Whiteley Village]], Surrey, built between 1914 and 1917, with over 280 buildings, and the [[Dyers Almshouses]], Sussex, built between 1939 and 1971. [[Letchworth Garden City]], the first garden city, was inspired by Arts and Crafts ideals.<ref name=maccarthy2014/>

The first houses were designed by [[Richard Barry Parker|Barry Parker]] and [[Raymond Unwin]] in the [[vernacular]] style popularized by the movement and the town became associated with high-mindedness and simple living. The sandal-making workshop set up by [[Edward Carpenter]] moved from Yorkshire to Letchworth Garden City and [[George Orwell]]'s jibe about "every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England" going to a socialist conference in Letchworth has become famous.<ref>George Orwell, ''The Road to Wigan Pier''</ref>

===Architectural examples===
* [[Red House, Bexleyheath|Red House]] – Upton, Bexley Heath, Kent – 1859
* [[David Parr House]] – Cambridge, England – 1886–1926
* [[Wightwick Manor]] – Wolverhampton, England – 1887–93
* [[Ernest Gimson|Inglewood]] – Leicester, England – 1892
* [[Standen]] – East Grinstead, England – 1894
* [[Swedenborgian Church (San Francisco, California)|Swedenborgian Church]] – San Francisco, California – 1895
* [[Mary Ward House]] – Bloomsbury, London – 1896–98
* [[Blackwell (historic house)|Blackwell]] – Lake District, England – 1898
* [[Derwent House]] – Chislehurst, Bromley, Kent – 1899
* [[Stoneywell]] – Ulverscroft, Leicestershire – 1899
* [[Edgar Wood#List of works|Long Street Methodist Church and School]] – Manchester, England – 1900
* [[Spade House]] – Sandgate, Kent – 1900
* [[Caledonian Estate]] – Islington, London – 1900–1907
* [[Horniman Museum]] – Forest Hill, London – 1901
* [[All Saints' Church, Brockhampton]] – 1901–02
* [[Shaw's Corner]] – Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire – 1902
* [[Pierre P. Ferry House]] – Seattle, Washington – 1903–1906
* [[Winterbourne Botanic Garden|Winterbourne House]] – Birmingham, England – 1904
* [[The Black Friar (pub)|The Black Friar]] – Blackfriars, London – 1905
* [[George W. Marston House|Marston House]] – San Diego, California – 1905
* [[Edgar Wood Centre]] – Manchester, England – 1905
* [[Debenham House]] – Holland Park, London – 1905–07
* Belrock - Greater Sudbury,  Ontario - 1907
* [[Robert R. Blacker House]] – Pasadena, California – 1907
* [[Stotfold (house)|Stotfold]], Bickley, Kent – 1907
* [[Gamble House (Pasadena, California)|Gamble House]] – Pasadena, California – 1908
* [[Oregon Public Library]] – Oregon, Illinois – 1909
* [[Thorsen House]] – Berkeley, California – 1909
* [[Rodmarton Manor]] – Rodmarton, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire – 1909–29
* [[Whare Ra]] – Havelock North, New Zealand – 1912
* [[Conservation areas in Sutton, London#The Sutton Garden Suburb Conservation Area|Sutton Garden Suburb]] – Benhilton, Sutton, London – 1912–14
* [[The Omni Grove Park Inn]] – Asheville, North Carolina – 1913
* [[Castle in the Clouds]] – [[Ossipee Mountains]] at [[Lake Winnipesaukee]], New Hampshire – 1913-14
* [[Honan Chapel]] – University College Cork, Ireland – c.1916
* [[St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Geraldton|St Francis Xavier's Cathedral]] – Geraldton Western Australia 1916–1938
* [[Bedales School]] Memorial Library – near Petersfield, Hampshire – 1919–21
* [[William Lightfoot Price#House of the Democrat|House of the Democrat]] – Rose Valley, Pennsylvania 1911–12
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