Ī successor of other 19th century movements, such as the Gothic Revival and the Aesthetic Movement, the British Arts and Crafts movement was a reaction against the deteriorating quality of goods during the Industrial Revolution, and the corresponding devaluation of human labor, over-dependence on machines, and disbanding of the guild system. The American Craftsman style was a 20th century American offshoot of the British Arts and Crafts movement, which began as early as the 1860s. The style remained popular into the 1930s, and has continued with revival and restoration projects through present times. The architectural style was most widely used in small-to-medium-sized Southern California single-family homes from about 1905, so that the smaller-scale Craftsman style became known alternatively as ' California bungalow'. The name Craftsman was appropriated from furniture-maker Gustav Stickley, whose magazine The Craftsman was first published in 1901. Its immediate ancestors in American architecture are the Shingle style, which began the move away from Victorian ornamentation toward simpler forms and the Prairie style of Frank Lloyd Wright. An American Craftsman-style bungalow in San Diego, typical in older neighborhoods of many Western and Upper Midwest American citiesĪmerican Craftsman is an American domestic architectural style, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, which included interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts, beginning in the last years of the 19th century.

Arts and crafts building style