Jeff Ubois from archival.tv pointed me out two significant figures in the Arts & Crafts movement in North America. One is Elbert Hubbard, a soap salesman that turned into a philosopher, writer and publisher, who instituted the William Morris Arts and Crafts Movement in East Aurora in 1895. Hubbard disliked mass produced, machine-made articles, the "mad onrush of modernism", and made the opposite, art and handicraft, as his business.
The other is Charles Keeler, the author of The Simple Home, which was a key essay in the creation of many of the west's most beautiful neighborhoods, and to the development of American Arts and Crafts, Art Deco and Modernist design. Keeler was also a founding member of the Berkeley Hillside Club, something that Jeff is now interested in reviving.
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Ulla,
Your craft manifesto just cries out for letterpress printing on thick, archival quality paper. Maybe these folks could do it:
http://www.artsandcraftspress.com/ -- they have a whole series of William Morris cards.
-- Jeff
Posted by: Jeff Ubois | September 13, 2006 at 06:59 PM
Ulla,
Your craft manifesto just cries out for letterpress printing on thick, archival quality paper. Maybe these folks could do it:
http://www.artsandcraftspress.com/ -- they have a whole series of William Morris cards.
-- Jeff
Posted by: Jeff Ubois | September 13, 2006 at 07:00 PM