Dard Hunter Vase

Roycroft items began being produced in the late 19th-century in East Aurora, NY, the workshop and community forming around the entrepreneurial spirit of Elbert Hubbard, his theories around artistic upheaval and a gradual societal unshackling from boundaries imposed in the Victorian era having pushed him to invest in and establish an assortment of manufacturing space for craft works. Of the various forms of production that took place — printing, furniture making, leather working — the results of the metal workshop, with hammered copper in particular, have become highly sought after for their charm and cultivated beauty, the design and fabrication ushering in a stripped back and cleaner approach to form, part-influenced by various member’s exposure to European Secessionist and proto-Modernist movement.