What we know today as the craftsman style was originally a subset of the arts and crafts movement and is short for craftsmanship.
Arts and crafts style furniture characteristics.
Furniture maker gustav stickley first produced arts and crafts furniture often referred to as being in the mission style though stickley disdained the name.
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.
Styles range from traditional mission to bungalow and most pieces are available in solid cherry or quarter sawn oak.
Appearance of arts and crafts movement furniture.
The arts crafts movement blossomed in the late victorian period an aesthetic response to industrialization.
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.
In general furniture done in the arts and crafts style is very rectilinear meaning it has many straight lines often with an emphasis on.