Arts and Crafts vs Droog
アーツ・アンド・クラフツ / ドローホ
Arts and Crafts comes from Craft Movements and Droog from Furniture and Interiors. They are reached for with different intent, which is the fastest way to tell them apart.
Arts and Crafts
Returns material and handwork to the center of design, joining every detail of daily life under one conviction.
Droog
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Droog is the shared manner of a Dutch designers' cooperative that formed in the 1990s, and droog is the Dutch word for dry. Familiar things, a salvaged drawer or a knot, are kept as the structure of the object instead of being hidden by finishing. The group made simplicity and wit into a common type, which set it against the slicker industrial design of the same years.
| Arts and Crafts | Droog | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1860s–1910s | 1990s– |
| Family | Craft Movements | Furniture and Interiors |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Repeating plants / Flat contours / Density of handwork / Colors from nature | Ready made parts of different origins are bound into one piece without matching their colour or wear / Straps and cords that look like temporary fixings stay on as the final structure / The making process remains on the finished surface, with knots and joints left unsanded / Because the parts differ every time, no two objects from one design are alike |
| Best used for | Honesty for long-lived tools and household brands · Uniting pattern, letter and material in one story | When found parts or salvage should be shown as the structure rather than covered up · When one object needs exactly one idea that has to be explained, and nothing decorative anywhere else |
| Type | Serifs or ornamented letters that feel hand-cut | Keep lettering off the object. Where an explanation is needed, give it one short title and set it in a single plain sans serif. |
| Composition | Repeat plants and creatures with the seams hidden | One idea per object. Add nothing, and let the salvaged parts keep their mismatched dimensions. |
| Material | Deep indigo, plant-dye tones, off-white; keep the texture of paper and cloth | Combine materials of different origins: discarded drawers, cord and strapping, fibre soaked in resin. Leave the traces of making unpolished and let the fixings serve as the finish. |
| Caution | A floral print alone loses the conviction. Align material, making and a structure that lasts. | Reproduce only the look of salvage in new material and the origin, which is the point, drops out, leaving a weathered decorative finish. |