Arts and Crafts Antique Furniture - A Return to Simpler Times When we consider names like Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812 -52) and William Morris (1834-1896) today, we think about these men as decorators Pugin being in charge of the inner parts of the Houses of Parliament, and maybe rather unkindly, Morris for wallpaper, tiles and place mats. In any case, both these men were enthusiastic reformers of their day and were to a limited extent in charge of the beginnings of the Arts and Crafts Movement, which responded against low quality mass delivered furniture and other family unit things being fabricated amid the Victorian period.
Both these men needed an arrival to less difficult hand created types of generation. For Pugin it was the medieval outlines of Gothic furniture and