Arts and Crafts movement… “fitness in the ornament to the thing ornamented”, and that wallpapers and carpets must not have any patterns “suggestive of anything but a level or plain”.

Morris began experimenting with various crafts and designing furniture and interiors. He was personally involved in manufacture as well as design, which was to be the hallmark of the Arts and Crafts movement. Ruskin had argued that the separation of the intellectual act of design from the manual act of physical creation was both socially… Continue reading Arts and Crafts movement… “fitness in the ornament to the thing ornamented”, and that wallpapers and carpets must not have any patterns “suggestive of anything but a level or plain”.

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Nirona and its league of amazing artisans It is a properly-regarded fact that Kutch is the Mecca of the vivid Gujarati handicrafts. But it was only following coming to the location in person did I find out that the art we get to see from Gujarat in the cities is just the suggestion of the… Continue reading 20180127-0I7A2087