Arts & Crafts Style Steinway Upright

Arts and Crafts style, 1905, Steinway upright piano for sale with a figured, mahogany case and large sculptural legs. The large sculptural legs have an arched architrave visible from the piano profile. Cabinet features a wide music desk in a three arch design with cut-out inverted hearts backed with red felt. Piano has an eighty-eight note keyboard and two pedals.

The Arts and Crafts Movement was an international design movement that flourished between 1880 and 1910. The movement stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often applied medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It sought to reassert the importance of design and craftsmanship in all the arts in the face of increasing industrialization, which was felt was sacrificing quality in the pursuit of quantity. Arts and Crafts objects were simple in form, without superfluous or excessive decoration, and how they were constructed was often still visible. They tended to emphasize the qualities of the materials used. The movement was successful in raising the status of the craftsman and promoting respect for native materials and traditions.