Frido Witte Chair No. 21 (around 1908) #1

Arts and Crafts: Parallel to the onset of industrialization and increasing machine production, the Arts and Crafts Movement began in Great Britain in the second half of the 19th century - a counter-movement that focused on artistic design and production. Artists, designers and architects attached great importance to the quality of craftsmanship and the appropriateness of materials and rejected historicizing exuberance and stylistics. In the field of furniture design and interior architecture, the arts and crafts pursued a clear design, for example through sparse geometric decoration. The result was authentic furniture that was both beautiful and robust. The Arts and Crafts movement spread increasingly in Europe and the USA from the 1880s onwards with designs by William Morris, H. M. Baillie Scott and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which continued the aesthetic characteristics and ideals.