The Aesthetic Movement is alive today and is always a part of my design scope. The movement itself began in Britain in the 1860s out of reaction to the drab and poor-quality goods being produced during the industrial revolution.
The movement was more of a lifestyle in many ways and ran through all areas of the arts: poetry, design, fine art and performance, with Oscar Wilde as the most famous participant! The mantra of this stylistic phenomena was “art for art’s sake” and it was said in defense of the idea that one cannot remove making from the design process.
