Truth to Materials was a driving principle behind Modern design in the 1920s and 1930s holding that artists should celebrate their materials' natural properties and not distort its true characteristics color, texture, shape, and so on.)
The Arts and Crafts movement and British> artists like Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and William Morrisrejected the extravagant ornamentation of Victorian design in favor of more ¨honest¨ construction.