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Craftsmanship: american arts!

We value craftsmanship more than ever, today we’re going to talk about the american arts! Nowadays the United States of America are also home for some of the most talented master artisans, artists, designers and art galleries in the world.


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The american arts are here to make a statement and to be a strong presence in the market!

 

Craftsmanship_ The Most Wonderful Pieces of American Arts (3)Craftsmanship: Architect Frank Furness also produced furniture designs, like this desk, that influenced the Arts and Crafts movement in Philadelphia. Photo: ©Philadelphia Museum of Art

The United States of America were the birth place for “American Craftsman Style” , it is also know as “American Arts and Crafts Movement”. “This was an American domestic architecturalinterior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy which began in the last years of the 19th century.”

Craftsmanship_ The Most Wonderful Pieces of American Arts (4)Craftsmanship: Linen Press (1904) by Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony. Made of oak, tulip poplar and brass. Photo: ©Metropolitan Museum of Art

The american arts were born side by side with the wide diversity of related European design movements. “The British movement was a way of reacting against the Industrial Revolution‘s depreciation of the individual worker and resulting degradation of human labor’s dignity.”

Craftsmanship_ The Most Wonderful Pieces of American Arts (5)Craftsmanship: Box (1910-20) by Marie Zimmermann. Made of wood, ivory, patinated silver, nickel-plated brass, steel, amethyst, and semi-precious quartz. Photo: ©Metropolitan Museum of Art

We want that you feel inspired with our vintage industrial style! Here you’ve a clear example of that, a vintage piece that will be perfect for your living room!

Remarkable American Master Artisans, Artists and Designers

Craftsmanship_ The Most Wonderful Pieces of American Arts (12)Craftsmanship: Wendell Castle’s Workshop. Photo: ©W Magazine

Wendell Castle was one of the most important in the world of design! He was known as creative soul, the tried to reivent himself and it’s pieces all the time. “Wendell was a man who never stopped dreaming and making those dreams a reality.”

Craftsmanship_ The Most Wonderful Pieces of American Arts (7)Craftsmanship: Music stand in hand-sculpted walnut (1977) by Wendell Castle. Photo: ©R and Company

Thanks to his beautiful and innovative craftsmanship masterpieces he was invited to be an instructor in the furniture department at the School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology. We can only fall in love with all of his work!

Craftsmanship_ The Most Wonderful Pieces of American Arts (8)Craftsmanship: Black leather crescent rocker by Wendell Castle. Photo: ©Nye & Company Auctioneers

The american arts are different, are bold and they can make all the difference at your vintage house! Something you may want to know about Wendell is that “his innovative contributions in molded plastic furniture, including the adored Molar chairs (1969) were the first significant ones made in America.” 

Craftsmanship_ The Most Wonderful Pieces of American Arts (9)Craftsmanship: Adam Silverman’s Workshop. Photo: ©Cool Hunting

Adam Silverman was born in 1963 in New York! He served as the Los Angeles studio director of Heath Ceramics from January 2009 to May 2014.

 

Craftsmanship_ The Most Wonderful Pieces of American Arts (10)Lindsey Adelman’s Portrait. Photo: ©Nedgis

Lindsey Adelman is specialized in lighting design since 1996. “Adelman first discovered Industrial Design when meeting a woman carving foam French Fries for an exhibition at her editorial job at the Smithsonian and decided to study ID at the Rhode Island School of Design.”

Craftsmanship_ The Most Wonderful Pieces of American Arts (11)Craftsmanship: “Boom Boom Burst” by Lindsey Adelman. Made of brushed brass, vintage brass, oil-rubbed bronze and satin nickel. Photo: ©The Future Perfect

What an amazing lighting piece! Imagine her within your vintage industrial style, it’s multiple lighting focus will illuminate all your place. Welcome to the world of american arts!


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