Styles range from traditional mission to bungalow and most pieces are available in solid cherry or quarter sawn oak.
Arts and crafts style furniture characteristics.
In general furniture done in the arts and crafts style is very rectilinear meaning it has many straight lines often with an emphasis on.
Simple straight line construction in mission style joinery is exposed showing the skill and precision required to assemble a piece.
Arts and crafts style furniture featured individually crafted pieces heavily influenced by the vernacular architecture of the english countryside as well as by natural motifs.
Well constructed arts and crafts furniture is made using mortise and tenon joinery where a projecting tenon fits perfectly into a mortise opening say where a leg meets a crossbar with as little nailing and gluing as possible.
Appearance of arts and crafts movement furniture.
Chilton celebrates american craftsmanship with its line of arts crafts furniture.
It lasted from about 1890 to 1920 and was a style prominent in america in the u s in a country that praises democracy the movement was most appealing to the middle class.