A key craft of the A&C movement was metalwork, ubiquitous as architectural and furniture hardware. Once again it’s possible to get period-style hardware from the frank to the bizarre—and from both artisan shops and larger manufacturers.
A look at light fixtures, art lamps and glass, hardware and metalwork of the Arts & Crafts Revival.
Fabrication of copper (cobre in Spanish) by the Purepecha people of central Mexico predates Arts & Crafts metalwork by centuries.
Meet three people working in the old ways: a third-generation metalworker, a fine furniture maker, and an artist in glass.
Browse a selective list of artists and manufacturers for Arts & Crafts-inspired hardware in brass and bronze, iron and steel, glass and ceramics. Also listed: Metal accessories from mailboxes and signs to fireplace tools.
The American movement is so heavily identified with wood: shingled bungalows, Mission oak, wainscots and beams. And as for the revival, interpretation of the woodwork of Greene and Greene is a movement all its own.