Wednesday, December 10, 2008

early century arts and crafts, where are you?

It has long been my hope that the venerable Arts and Crafts movement would return and slay the evil factories, terrible working conditions and shoddily made mass produced products of the Industrial Revolu----wait wait wait. Sound familiar? Yeah. I say it's time for Art and Crafts v. 2.0. Let's get a new William Morris and a new Josef Hofmann, but maybe they could, like, be chicks or something.

[RIVA Handkerchief by Josef Hofmann, c. 1910]

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