TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodel,Kevin P.
AU  - Binzen,Jonathan
TI  - Arts & crafts furniture: from classic to contemporary 
SN  - 1561583596 :
AV  - NK2394.A77 R63 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Newtown, CT
PB  - Taunton Press
KW  - Arts and crafts movement
KW  - Furniture
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Furniture of the Arts and Crafts Movement -- Social Reform, Design Revolution -- Hallmarks of the Arts and Crafts Style -- How the Movement Spread -- William Morris: The Roots of Arts and Crafts -- Furnishing the Red House -- Morris & Co.: A Guild Goes into Business -- Gallery: The Art of Morris & Co -- Arts and Crafts in the Country: Gimson, the Barnsleys, and the Cotswolds Vernacular -- London Calling -- To the Cotswold Countryside -- The Cotswold Legacy -- Gallery: Cotswolds Country -- English Architects and Designers -- A. H. Mackmurdo and the Awakening of Arts and Crafts -- C. F. A. Voysey: Refined Simplicity -- The Artful Interior: M. H. Baillie Scott -- Liberty's and Heal & Son: Commercial Arts and Crafts in England -- Gallery: England's Professional Caste -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style -- Mackintosh: Style Innovator -- Mackintosh Emerges -- The Glasgow Style's Other Contributors -- Mackintosh on the Wane -- Gallery: The Glasgow Style -- Continental Europe -- Arts and Crafts in Austria -- Ruskin and Morris in Deutschland -- Ernst Ludwig's Legacy -- Gallery: The Vienna Secession -- Gustav Stickley and His Brothers -- Origins of the Style -- Essence of the Craftsman Style -- Stickley's Impact -- Which Is the Real Stickley Furniture? -- Gallery: The Stickley Family -- Handmade in a Factory: Mass Production in Grand Rapids -- The Disappearing Artisan -- Mission in the Midwest -- Charles P. Limbert's European Influence -- Joseph McHugh's Mission Furniture -- Gallery: Factory Furniture -- The Prairie School -- Arts and Crafts in the Windy City -- Louis Sullivan, Mentor to the Prairie School -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Organic Ideal -- George Mann Niedecken, Interior Architect -- Syncopated Ornament: George Washington Maher -- Prairie Partners: Purcell and Elmslie -- Gallery: Prairie Arts & Crafts -- Utopian Communities: American Furniture and Social Reform -- Byrdeliffe's Aristocratic Utopia -- Elbert Hubbard and the Marketing of Utopia -- Rose Valley's Suburban Gothic -- Gallery: Utopian Furniture -- American Innovators -- Charles Rohlfs and the Decorated Plank -- John Scott Bradstreet: Fine Furniture on the Frontier -- Arts and Crafts Climax: The Interiors of Greene and Greene -- Gallery: Innovators in the States -- The Revival of Arts and Crafts Furniture -- The Sudden Death of Arts and Crafts -- The Aftermath in England -- Danish Modern: Ruskin Revved Up -- The Dean of American Designer-Makers -- Gallery: Arts and Crafts Revival
N2  - Unlike the great furniture designs of the past, Arts and Crafts does not have a set of visual signatures that are easily identified. The designers of the Arts and Crafts movement, whether working in the United Kingdom, Europe, or North America, shared design principles and philosophies, yet they created furniture that is widely diverse in style. This book, the first to look at the entire range of Arts and Crafts furniture, shows that Arts and Crafts style is much more than Stickley and Mission. And while the historical Arts and Crafts movement ended in the early 20th century, since its revival in the 1970s, it is very much alive today and practiced by contemporary craftsmen. Dedicated to the integrated beauty of the whole house, the Arts and Crafts movement produced practical art of all kinds, but this book focuses on its most enduring legacy: the furniture. In the superb examples shown here, some of them in private collections and never before photographed, the true beauty and diversity of this unique furniture sings; The movement had outposts in many parts of the Western hemisphere, but it can be grouped into schools sharing a philosophy or aesthetic. This book looks at each school to help the reader both perceive the common themes and to identify the furniture by its hallmarks. A key principle of the Arts and Crafts movement is a respect for hand-craftsmanship. The authors, both accomplished furniture makers in their own right, bring the unique perspective of design by construction and illuminate how the details of exposed joinery and choice of wood and finish demonstrate the artistry in this work. For the first time this diverse and rich style is celebrated. For all those who love the Arts and Crafts style, this book will be an eye-opening look at both its diversity and the on-going tradition of craftsmanship
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