296 architectural drawings, floor plans, and photographs illustrate 40 different kinds of "Mission-style" homes from "The Craftsman" (1901-16), voice of American style of simplicity and organic harmony.
The classic American bungalow is as popular today as when introduced in the Victorian era. This title shows a wide variety of interior details and describes how to add or restore elements that suggest a historic flair while keeping the home comfortable and functional.
"Stickley's The Craftsman Home" collects all of Stickley's house designs, published in "The Craftsman" magazine between 1904 and 1916. All the designs here, are in sequential order from 1 to 221, as well as commissions and special designs, along with exterior illustrations, floor plans, and fascinating historical photographs for many of the ...
The first in-depth, authoritative work on Gustav Stickley, the famed furniture designer and architect whose name is synonymous with the Arts and Crafts aesthetic in America. 260 photos, 250 in color.
Small, livable, unpretentious, and ground-hugging, the bungalow's economy of construction has made it one of the most prolific housing styles in American history. Here, text and photos combine to cover the major types of bungalow--American Craftsman, Spanish Colonial, English Cottage, English Tudor Revival, and many others. Full-color photos.
Based on proven designs from the beginning of the Craftsman movement, "Craftsman Collection" showcases the solidity and style that make these plans so popular. Featuring modernized interiors, the "Craftsman Collection" is more than a collection of buildable designs; it also features 32 pages of full color celebrating the history, as well as the ...
Powell and Svendsen identify the finer points and visual characteristics that make a bungalow a bungalow, and show how to incorporate these important details into your bungalow. The authors explain how to identify the details and the ways of blending them.
This volume surveys Arts and Crafts design in Britain, America, and Europe, as applied to architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, metalworks, textiles, and books.
Considered among the highest achievements of the American arts and crafts movement, Greene & Greene furniture was custom-built for specific interior spaces, and many of the pieces still remain in their original locations. This manual, written by a nationally recognized furniture maker, provides intermediate and advanced woodworkers with well ...
Addressing the importance of color in Arts & Crafts architecture, this new volume provides practical advice for integrating these historically accurate colors today. 160 photos, 140 in color.
This volume presents the American arts and crafts-era bungalow in all its cozy charm, showing us a wide range of these little houses and the ways in which they have been revitalized, restored, and adapted to modern needs. Also includes many useful ideas for restoration and decoration.
Much has been said about the Arts & Crafts spirit of Californians, their appreciation of the land, their desire to build "simple" yet interesting houses that connect with the outdoors (sleeping porches, gardens, verandas, terraces, and so on), and their love of wilderness areas. This new edition of the classic, Building with Nature: Roots of the ...
"The New Bungalow Kitchen" not only provides wonderful historical nuggets about this housing style, it offers a plethora of ideas about how to create a tastefully restored or remodeled kitchen, or build new within the style.
A beautifully illustrated and comprehensive reference on the Arts and Crafts movement traces the origins and history of this popular design style, profiles its leading proponents, and provides a lavish array of Arts and Crafts architecture and interior design, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, glass, f
This companion book to "The Bungalow" includes chapters devoted to all aspects of bungalow interior design, including the front door--with its sense of arrival--the fireplace, the living room, the den, study, or library, the kitchen and dining room, and bedrooms that range from nursery to sleeping porch. 250 color photos.
Renovations, new construction, seaside retreats, cozy bungalows, large houses and small spas--all built with the natural materials and handcrafted details that are central to the Craftsman style.
Packed with affordable collectibles and classic antiques that will appeal to a wide range of enthusiasts, the "DK Collector's Guide: Arts & Crafts explores one of the most influential design movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. This fourth book in the DK Collector's Guide series, with its unique combination of price guide and historical ...
The American Craftsman style, not dissimilar to our own Arts and Crafts style, features fine details and modest proportions that make it one of today's most sought-after architectural themes. This collection of 165 beautiful homes, all presented in full colour, celebrates Craftsman design and its roots. It includes case studies that demonstrate ...
David Brett argues that Mackintosh's originality was grounded in a highly subjective 'poetics of workmanship, ' in which the structure, features, interiors and furnishings of each individual building became subject to a unifying system of forms, metaphors and unconscious associations.
You can still fill your home with the useful and beautiful pieces of the Arts & Crafts movement. Work your way through these 25 well-crafted projects, making authentic reproductions of classic pieces. With clean lines and timeless styles, this furniture goes well with everything.
"Arts and Crafts Furniture" offers good-looking, quality furniture at a skill level that is approachable for most woodworkers.The style is second only to "Shaker" in terms of reader preference and "Popular Woodworking's Arts & Crafts Furniture Projects" focuses on popular pieces that are sure to appeal to woodworking enthusiasts of all levels.The ...
Authentic Arts & Crafts Furniture is a "filled-to-the-gills" book. All woodworkers, from beginners through advanced master craftsman, will find something special in this beautifully crafted, well-designed, thoughtfully organized book. Twenty great projects taken from the files of Popular Woodworking, the skill-building project magazine for ...
Based on the ideals of William Morris and his circle, the Arts and Crafts Movement flourished vigorously when transplanted to American soil at the turn of the century. With Gustave Stickley as its moving spirit, the movement eventually included such notable designers, architects and firms as Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Adelaide ...
"Beyond the Bungalow", the newest book from renowned designer and Arts & Crafts expert Paul Duchscherer, celebrates the larger members of the Arts & Crafts family, and pays tribute to their remarkable artistic beauty, craftsmanship, and diversity of style. Widely acclaimed as America's favourite "Arts & Crafts Home," the term bungalow may bring a ...
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