Workshop of the World: Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia

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A showcase of the Philadelphia artists, designers, and manufacturers whose work responded to urban industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Inspired by the British Arts and Crafts movement, a group of Philadelphia artists and designers looked to preindustrial technologies to mitigate the decline in quality of manufactured goods in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Within Philadelphia and on its outskirts, where small communities of like-minded creatives…