Cranbrook

Today we slept in until 8:15, in our luxurious guest room at the Daley Sanatorium. It felt great! We visited Cranbrook Manor to see a beautiful old home and gardens. We learned about the Arts and Crafts movement in interior design. All the wood work in the home was done by hand which is typical of the Arts and Crafts movement. People of this day felt that hand crafted items were superior to things made in a factory. A man named William Morris said this about the Arts and Crafts movement. "Now it is one of the chief uses of decoration, the chief part of its alliance with nature, that it has to sharpen our dulled senses in this matter: for this end are those wonders of intricate patterns interwoven, those strange forms invented, that men have so long delighted in: forms and intricacies that do not necessarily imitate nature, but in which the hand of the craftsman is guided to work in the way that she does, till the web, the cup, or the knife, look as natural, nay as lovely, as the green field, the river bank, or the mountain flint.

To give people pleasure in the things they must perforce use, that is one great office of decoration; to give people pleasure in the things they must perforce make, that is the other use of it."