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Style 1900 is a magazine about the architecture, arts, and decorative arts that revolutionized the design world at the turn of the 20th century. Born in 1987 as The Arts and Crafts Quarterly, it has grown from a black and white, subscription-only newsletter to a 100+ page color publication covering the international scope of the Arts and Crafts movement. The magazine is now available nationally and internationally at bookstores such as Borders, Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton and Virgin Megastore, as well as on newsstands and in many private galleries and museum gift shops.
While sometimes known in the U.S. as the Mission, Stickley, or Bungalow style, the Arts and Crafts style (actually a related group of styles) was part of an international design reform movement that began in England in around 1860 and spread to North America, Australia, Europe, and Japan by the 1930s. Today, vintage pieces by well-known artists like Frank Lloyd Wright and Josef Hoffmann have become exceedingly rare and costly. Only a few individuals and institutions can afford them.
Famed Arts and Crafts designer William Morris once asked, “what business have we with art unless we can all share it?” Style 1900 agrees. For that reason, we believe that present craftsmen who are inspired by the Arts and Crafts principles of handcraftsmanship, natural materials, harmony, and simplicity deserve recognition. Whether their work closely resembles vintage products or is entirely original in form, if it is well-made, durable, and honest to its materials, we think it represents a new flowering of the old family tree. Meanwhile, the vocabulary of the movement has also entered the mainstream, and related items are now to be found in traditional furniture and hardware stores.
The Arts and Crafts movement is a survivor and like all survivors, it has changed with the times. So has Style 1900. We’re pleased to serve your interests, whether they pertain to your vintage or contemporary collections, home décor, reading and education, gardens, gifts, travel and more. We hope that you enjoy our website and look forward to having you visit often.
DAVID RAGO is the founder and publisher of Modernism Magazine and Style 1900 Magazine. He is also the founder and principal of David Rago Auctions, Inc. in Lambertville, New Jersey, one of the largest and liveliest auction houses in the country. Each year it holds two Modern auctions, several major Arts and Crafts auctions, and specialized Collector, Roseville, Lalique, estate, and toy sales. Rago is also a longtime private dealer in Arts and Crafts pottery, an expert appraiser for the PBS series Antiques RoadShow, and the author or co-author of numerous articles and books, of which the most recent are Miller's American Art Pottery: Treasure or Not? and Collecting Modern.
JENNIFER STRAUSS joined Style 1900 in 2000, upon graduating with a B.A. in History from Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida. Showing an aptitude for sales and marketing, she was quickly promoted to Director of Advertising. In 2004, she joined David Rago as Co-Publisher. In the past five years, Jennifer has helped transform Style 1900 from a relatively unknown and hard-to-find publication, to an internationally recognized authority on Arts & Crafts, now boasting double the circulation. Jennifer is also Co-Publisher and Director of Advertising of Modernism Magazine.
ANNE STEWART O'DONNELL Editor-in-Chief of Style 1900 magazine, has researched and written extensively on the Arts and Crafts, especially on women designers and on the movement’s British roots. She grew up in Delaware, where her parents collected Early American antiques (allegedly naming her after their favorite furniture style, Queen Anne). After 16 years as a programmer for IBM, she returned to school to follow her own passion for antiques by pursuing a M.A. in the History of Decorative Arts. The program, jointly offered by Parsons School of Design, the Smithsonian Associates, and Cooper-Hewitt (the Smithsonian’s National Design Museum), allowed her to study in Paris and London and to spend two summers as an intern at the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum in Gloucestershire, home to one of the world’s finest collections of British Arts and Crafts. After making her Style 1900 debut in 2002 with an article on the Cheltenham collection, Anne became a regular contributor and then Senior Editor before taking the reins as Editor-in-Chief in 2007. She lives in Virginia and is currently at work on a book on greeting cards in America, 1900 – WWII.
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