Chilton celebrates american craftsmanship with its line of arts crafts furniture.
Arts and crafts style furniture characteristics.
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.
Styles range from traditional mission to bungalow and most pieces are available in solid cherry or quarter sawn oak.
Simple straight line construction in mission style joinery is exposed showing the skill and precision required to assemble a piece.
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.
In general furniture done in the arts and crafts style is very rectilinear meaning it has many straight lines often with an emphasis on.