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.
Arts and crafts style furniture characteristics.
The arts crafts movement blossomed in the late victorian period an aesthetic response to industrialization.
In general furniture done in the arts and crafts style is very rectilinear meaning it has many straight lines often with an emphasis on.
What we know today as the craftsman style was originally a subset of the arts and crafts movement and is short for craftsmanship.
Furniture maker gustav stickley first produced arts and crafts furniture often referred to as being in the mission style though stickley disdained the name.
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.
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.