Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Farms: The Quest for an Arts and Crafts Utopia

From 1911 to 1917 Craftsman Farms-now a major museum-was the home of Gustav Stickley, one of the central figures in the American Arts and Crafts Movement. This book unravels the rich and sometimes contradictory ideas that informed not only Stickley but many of the artists and literary figures of the progressive era in America. The year 1900 was the fulcrum in a long arc of utopian ideals dating back to Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and William Morris in England, a movement which would eventu...