Craft Movements

工芸運動

Dictionary entry

  1. Arts and Crafts 1860s–1910s / Style

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

  2. Mingei 1926– / Style

    The movement in which Yanagi Sōetsu and his circle found 'the beauty of use' in the everyday wares of unnamed craftsmen — anonymity, repetition and utility as the measure of healthy form, the bedrock of Japanese design thought.

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