The Arts & Crafts movement was, say its detractors, backward looking, to medieval craft and pre-industrial values. On the other hand, it was driven by the contemporary pistons of democracy, libertarianism, and romantic socialism. With no less an objective than a better life for all, it became submerged, unfashionable in a system driven by profit, privilege and fear. Few Arts & Crafts men and women practiced after the First World War. Yet, somehow, the flame lit by these pioneers still smoulders, and with renewed national interest in architecture, may yet burn more brightly. The Architect's journal has referred to recent work by architect David Lea as "connecting with the golden thread of English Architecture, back through Voysey to Morris and Ruskin, searching for the spirit of our age rather than offering mere parodies of the past." The best of the inter-war suburbs and, more importantly, the garden cities and cottage estates, are living models.