The Arts and Crafts Movement in America – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-arts-and-crafts-movement-in-america
Arts and Crafts designers sought to improve standards of decorative design, believed to have been debased by mechanization, and to create environments in which beautiful and fine workmanship governed.
and art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900), who advocated medieval architecture as a model