The session had become a status symbol, a clear manifestation of social power. The explosion of the imagination of the Arts & Crafts movement, later supported by the push of art nouveau, marked a fundamental moment of transition in the history of interior design. The house, the total work of art of the architect/artist, the fulcrum of the family in the industrial era, contrasted with the dirty and unhealthy life of the factory, flourishes again with increasingly special, more and more special furnishing accessories. Bourgeois society, the new ruling class, has its own pieces built while Morris and his followers would have liked to be a movement for the masses, in the most Marxian conception of the term. They had not considered that an original piece, handcrafted to an original artist’s design, would never be exactly cheap.