The Arts and Crafts Movement, Crystal Palace Exhibition

The Arts and Crafts Movement

The arts and crafts movement was oriented in Britain during the late nineteenth century. It is the movement that we see the architects and also the designers taking part in this movement. This movement was between the years of the 1850-1914. This movement was also characterized by the style of the medieval times. The most famous designer that we can see in this movement is William Morris.

The first phase that happened during this movement was the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and also by the Medieval Escapism.  In this case we can see three popular artists that are Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882), Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) and also Ford Madox Brown (1821-1882) which all designed for the Morris and Co and also by Gothic Revivalism which it was practiced by the architect George Edmund Street (1824-1881). While the reforming of the ideas of Augustus Pugin and also John Ruskin William Morris was being the first designer to attempt to put many of the theories into practice while he established Morris, Marshall and Faulkner and Co in the 1861 where in the 1874 it was changed to the Morris and Co, then they put their publishing division Kelmscott which the work was associated with the arts and crafts. This style is in several types of styles such as in the design including the architecture also in the typography and books, printing and also textiles and interior design.

This movement was also placed in the higher importance it is because of the craftsmanship while it was emphasized the importance of the art to contribute the economic reform.

                                                     William Morris, Tulip and Willow, 1873

                                  The Nature of the Gothic, Printed    by William Morris, 1892

                                              Standen House, Designed by Phillip Roth, 1891

                                                         Cowper Rose, Sydney, Australia

Arts and Crafts Movement

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Crystal Palace Exhibition

The crystal palace is the hugest glass and iron structure that was built in the 1851 for the Great Exhibition where it was held in London’s Hyde Park. The idea was of Prince Albert who was the head of Society of Arts where he wanted to impress the world with the Britain’s industrial achievements. The countries that were included were France, the United States, Russia, Turkey, and also Egypt that these all attended with the exhibits which fell into four main categories that are the Raw Materials, Machinery, Manufacturers and also Fine Art.

The Crystal Palace was  designed by Sir Joseph Paxton which it finished in October of the year 1851 where  after it  finished  in that  year the  Great  Exhibition  he  had  the  idea  of  moving it to  the  Penge Place Estate, Sydenham as a Winter Park and also as a Garden under Glass.

The Penge Place had now been named as the Crystal Palace Park which it was owned by the Paxton’s friend and also by the railway entrepreneur Leo Schuster. In august of the year 1852 it saw the rebuilding work and in June 1854 the Crystal Palace was re-opened to its new location by the Queen Victoria., where the whole building was 1,848 feet long and 408 feet wide which it includes the huge towers and also many fountains with over 11.000 jets rising into the air, this building was enormous.

The crystal palace got damaged by strong winds in the year 1861 and on Sunday the 30^th of December 1866 a fire broke out and destroyed the North End if the building along with many history exhibitions that were natural.

The Crystal Palace

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