By Mark Alan Hewitt. Gustav Stickley's utopian community was created to embody several of the central ideas of the Arts and Crafts communities such as Byrdcliff and Roycroft. The virtue of the simple life, the necessity for manual childhood education in the crafts and trades, the value of country life . . . all combined to lead a vanguard of critics against the rush of industrial capitalism and consumerism. 6.5x9 200+ pages illus Cloth