Arts and Crafts Lighting: From the Collection of the Two Red Roses Foundation

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•Considers a practical and aesthetic viewpoint on lighting styles within the American Arts and Crafts eraThe invention of American Arts and Crafts lighting used to be an impossible to resist phenomenon for lots of early twentieth-century artisans and designers. As it blossomed, it become a unique expression of craft, creativity, and technology. Arts and Crafts Lighting examines the advent of electric lighting from 1895 to 1920, showcasing more than eighty objects within the Two Red Roses Foundation Collection. The artisans, architects, and firms accountable for these works are discussed, together with the nature in their designs, their working methods, their creative use of wood, metal, glass, mica, ceramic, and other natural materials, and their imaginative handling of incandescent light to create functional, radiant beauty inside the domestic sphere.

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