>>511208805

> 1850 to 1950

Arts and crafts movement sprang up during this period specifically because everyone thought industrial capitalism made the world ugly, souless and mass produced

It wasn't better or nicer, especially not for the majority of population who didn't get to have fancy ornamental palaces and sculputures on facades. Majority of people lived in slums or extremely cheap buildings which got demolished ever since and replaced with something nicer