Charles Rohlfs

The thing with the Art's and Craft's movement is that it's an almost anti-victorianism, in that within the age of Victoria the makers, of A&C were rebelling against the machine and hearkening even further back to what may be called medievalism.

But with our perspective within the post-modern A&C is just as much Victorian as steam engines and the dark mills of the North of England. So will Steampunk, with time and the perspective offered by years, meld into the ideas we will have of the early 21st century... be unavoidably connected as it speaks of a way within an age irrespective of it's outward appearance?

In a book I have of A&C is says that Charles Rohlf wasn't accepted by the purists of that movement and yet, with time, he obviously is. Does this speak of a universality that already is but we are unable to see unless time gives us the range. Is universality always there and of everything?

Anyways I might have a go at copying this below which really does it for me. I have the Oak in abundance, old bedheads filled with the dreams of bedwetting children, and I know that no matter how hard I try it won't end up an exact copy... I can't help but follow my own line.

Isn't it just beautiful? A profound mixture of austerity and playfulness that would suit a witch within an Amish community. This is a bigger version to peruse.

It's all so flat, the wood, but he makes it roundy... this is what appeals to me, alike finding happiness in a mundane life.

These though, seem to be the most obvious as they turn up most frequently in a Google image search, but they seem to lack depth and be overly showy of skillfulness, like ballgowns unable to walk barefoot across the dewy midnight grass as the lights from chandeliers throw the shadows of hopeful escapes.

Dam fihn bit'a cahving thow!
So you got the name and a few examples... enjoy!