![]() The Arts & Crafts emerged in the United Kingdom around 1860, at roughly the same time as the closely related Aesthetic Movement, but the spread of the Arts & Crafts across the Atlantic to the United States in the 1890s, enabled it to last longer - at least into the 1920s. The movement is admired for its use of high quality materials and for its emphasis on utility in design. ![]() Disenchanted with the impersonal, mechanized direction of society in the 19 th century, they sought to return to a simpler, more fulfilling way of living. The founders of the Arts & Crafts Movement were some of the first major critics of the Industrial Revolution.
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