Arts and Crafts vs Eastlake

アーツ・アンド・クラフツ / イーストレイク様式

Arts and Crafts comes from Craft Movements and Eastlake from Furniture and Interiors. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.

Arts and Crafts

Arts and Crafts — William Morris, Strawberry Thief, 1883 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domainArts and Crafts — ウィリアム・モリス『柳の枝』1887 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domainArts and Crafts — ウェッブ＆モリス レッドハウス — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Returns material and handwork to the center of design, joining every detail of daily life under one conviction.

Eastlake

Eastlake — 《イーストレイク様式の肘掛椅子》ミズーリ歴史博物館 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domainEastlake — 《ジェーン・ヒース邸ポーチの木工》バッファロー — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Eastlake — 《ブラッドフォード邸》カリフォルニア州サンラファエル — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0

Eastlake is the name given to a decorative and architectural style in nineteenth century America, tied to the furniture designs of Charles Locke Eastlake. Its architecture borrows the vocabulary of furniture directly, with columns that resemble table legs, curved brackets, spindles, and knobs of various shapes made of circular perforations.

Arts and CraftsEastlake
Era1860s–1910s19th century–
FamilyCraft MovementsFurniture and Interiors
KindStyleStyle
CuesRepeating plants / Flat contours / Density of handwork / Colors from natureColumns shaped like thickened table legs / Curved brackets repeating at even intervals under eaves and porch roofs / Lathe-turned spindles filling railings and the head of a porch / Knobs pierced with circular perforations set where members meet
Best used forHonesty for long-lived tools and household brands · Uniting pattern, letter and material in one storyUnifying a house exterior and its fittings through one vocabulary of furniture parts · Building sets or backgrounds that reconstruct a nineteenth century American street
TypeSerifs or ornamented letters that feel hand-cutCut or raise signage lettering to the same depth as the woodwork, because thin faces lose against the ornament.
CompositionRepeat plants and creatures with the seams hiddenLeave no large blank plane, and score horizontals and verticals with columns, spindles and brackets at even spacing.
MaterialDeep indigo, plant-dye tones, off-white; keep the texture of paper and clothRestrict every form to what a lathe and a scroll saw can make, combining turned spindles, circular perforations and curved supports.
CautionA floral print alone loses the conviction. Align material, making and a structure that lasts.Scaling furniture parts up to building size removes the hand-held proportion they were derived from, and the ornament starts to look like models glued onto a wall.

Put these two together

Craft Movements ／ Furniture and Interiors

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