In the mid-nineteenth century, people were fade up by the possessions that the industrial revolution was having on the surrounding and workers that worked in the factories. John Ruskin an English art critic said that the industrial revolution was leaving a negative impact on the workers and the client because it was cheap and mass produced product.
This was a problem in the Victorian age “cult of domesticity,”. Ruskin broth back the medieval society, this was when an artist of craftsman do everything from beginning to end by handcraft. By this a worker would be satisfied with his work and a quality product would be created for the customer.
William Morris was influenced by Ruskin's writing.
The Red House
The arts and crafts interior where affected by Philip Webb in Red house in Bexleyheath, in England that was designed for William Morris and his wife Jane Burden in 1859.
Webb set various elements which influenced a future arts and crafts interior designs. (continued over 70years.)
Webb set various elements which influenced a future arts and crafts interior designs. (continued over 70years.)
The first principle was shown in the red house. The outgrowth of structure and plan that is the form, ornaments, and materials each interior must have.
The second principle was that each interior must have an original characteristic that fits into its particular function but at the same time having a variation that links into one theme and connects each room together.
The third principle is that the interior must show its structure elements genuinely.
And the last principle that every interior must use decent material with honesty, from the large surface to tiny detail.
The second principle was that each interior must have an original characteristic that fits into its particular function but at the same time having a variation that links into one theme and connects each room together.
The third principle is that the interior must show its structure elements genuinely.
And the last principle that every interior must use decent material with honesty, from the large surface to tiny detail.
Craftsmanship and community
Morris wanted that house that as you see it, it represent Morris ideas, art and craftsmanship. The mix of Morris and Webb for this house’s architecture and interior design was a successful result.
The Red house gave a prominent lesson in the history of contemporary use. It reflects the dedication of the architect and client in the middle ages by the adjustment, vernacular forms and the interpretation of Gothic decoration. In the mid-nineteenth century for the interior, they used to form and ornament. They support its classic source but they updated its main characteristic.
Morris ideas were influenced by romanticism in literature and art and by the Gothic revivalists refusal of the machines. Webb designed the furniture of the red house. He wanted to symbolise a beginning effect to create "the blossoms of the art"
Exterior of the red house.
The external of the house is has quite irregular windows. Windows are different as shape and position. And then there is the roof that as you look at it, you see that there is a rhyme with the steep roofs, prominent chimneys, Gable roof and exposed- beam ceiling. This is an example of the influence of the Gothic style that the exterior had. The rectangular windows in the exterior have a gothic, shape, pointed war arch.
Reference.
Antiques TV, 2013. Red House (part one) [video online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn1PHpfshok> [Published on Feb 14, 2013]
Antiques TV, 2013. Red House (part two) [video online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V12bcQIcIBU&spfreload=5> [Published on Feb 14, 2013]
Style Icons, 2002, Arts and crafts movement, United states: Todtri
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