Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum

What's the Buzz in WNY Ep 30 seg 3 Roycroft Campus

Roycroft Campus in East Aurora, NY is the best preserved and most complete complex of buildings remaining in the United States of the guilds that evolved as centers of craftsmanship and philosophy during the late 19th century. The Campus, designated a National Historic Landmark district (NHL) in 1986, contains nine of the original 14 structures including the Inn, the Chapel, the Print Shop, the Furniture Shop, and the Copper Shop. So come visit and discover the rebirth of the Roycroft Campus as if Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters never left.

Arts and Crafts movement | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:30 1 Origins and influences
00:01:41 1.1 Design reform
00:05:50 1.2 A. W. N. Pugin
00:07:21 1.3 John Ruskin
00:08:37 1.4 William Morris
00:11:15 2 Social and design principles
00:11:26 2.1 Critique of industry
00:16:44 2.2 Socialism
00:17:47 2.3 Association with other reform movements
00:18:24 3 Development
00:25:53 3.1 Later influences
00:27:40 4 Outside England
00:27:50 4.1 Ireland
00:28:59 4.2 Scotland
00:30:42 4.3 Wales
00:30:59 4.4 Continental Europe
00:35:23 4.5 North America
00:42:32 4.5.1 Architecture and Art
00:45:08 4.5.2 Museums
00:45:28 4.6 Asia
00:45:58 5 Architecture
00:48:23 5.1 Architectural examples
00:51:27 6 Garden design
00:53:03 7 Art education
00:57:42 8 Leading practitioners
00:57:52 9 Decorative arts gallery
00:58:03 10 See also



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The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan in the 1920s as the Mingei movement. It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. It advocated economic and social reform and was essentially anti-industrial. It had a strong influence on the arts in Europe until it was displaced by Modernism in the 1930s, and its influence continued among craft makers, designers, and town planners long afterwards.The term was first used by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at a meeting of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1887, although the principles and style on which it was based had been developing in England for at least 20 years. It was inspired by the ideas of architect Augustus Pugin, writer John Ruskin, and designer William Morris.The movement developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. It was largely a reaction against the perceived impoverishment of the decorative arts at the time and the conditions in which they were produced.