The Arts and Crafts movement changed the lives of many people in Scotland. Through the furnishing of public buildings, exhibitions, church craft and home interiors, its designers aimed to restore beauty to everyday experience. They worked in such diverse fields such as furniture, textiles, jewellery and metalwork, glass, ceramics, mural decoration and architectural design and crafts. Theirs is a narrative of close networks of families and friends, men and women, designers and industrialists dedicated to the rights of the individual and to the proper place of art within modern society. It is a remarkable and often inspiring story of ideals, commitment and imagination. This book for the first time provides a national context for the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Robert Lorimer, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Phoebe Anna Traquair. Various chapters look at public art, craft education and concepts of tradition, the rise of independent professional women designers, domestic and church buildings, the role of craft within communities, and how Arts and Crafts was finally transformed in the age of Modernism.

"An invaluable addition to the bibliography of Scottish art" - Duncan Macmillan