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Author: William H. Varnum Publisher: Gibbs Smith ISBN: 9780879056995 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
Originally published in 1916 when the Arts & Crafts movement was in its heyday, this is a virtual textbook of materials, color, techniques, and designs. Arts & Crafts Design is a practical guide to the creation of high-quality, high-style furnishings through the industrial arts. "In this relativistic age in which de gustilrie non disputandum est (it is undisputed that each person has their own sense of taste), it is refreshing to look back to the early twentieth century when at least a few people were certain that there are universal rules for good art and also that they had themselves mastered these precepts and could pass them on to a society that loved commonly held values. William H. Varnum was one of those people. He offers here a textbook that will, if followed, allow students to 'directly apply well-recognized principles of design to specific materials and problems.' No situation esthetics here. In fact, he followed these principles in designing the logos representing his tools and ratio system on the cover of his book. "The publisher of this new edition has added a useful foreword and substitued the title Arts and Crafts Design for the original (1916) Industrial Arts Design, an appropriate modification since the term "industrial" suggests factory production whereas Varnum referred to objects that today we call "Craftsman"--Rookwood pottery, Stickley furniture, Jarvie candlesticks, etc. A delightful touch is that Varnum included pictures of these objects alongside the principles by which he believed they were designed. Varnum's book offers an enlightening, if somewhat technical, insight into thinking about design before World War I. There is no doubt that the Arts and Crafts period during which the principles of simple beauty married so neatly with function can be better understood and appreciated today through Varnum's perceptions." Robert Winter
Author: William H. Varnum Publisher: Gibbs Smith ISBN: 9780879056995 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
Originally published in 1916 when the Arts & Crafts movement was in its heyday, this is a virtual textbook of materials, color, techniques, and designs. Arts & Crafts Design is a practical guide to the creation of high-quality, high-style furnishings through the industrial arts. "In this relativistic age in which de gustilrie non disputandum est (it is undisputed that each person has their own sense of taste), it is refreshing to look back to the early twentieth century when at least a few people were certain that there are universal rules for good art and also that they had themselves mastered these precepts and could pass them on to a society that loved commonly held values. William H. Varnum was one of those people. He offers here a textbook that will, if followed, allow students to 'directly apply well-recognized principles of design to specific materials and problems.' No situation esthetics here. In fact, he followed these principles in designing the logos representing his tools and ratio system on the cover of his book. "The publisher of this new edition has added a useful foreword and substitued the title Arts and Crafts Design for the original (1916) Industrial Arts Design, an appropriate modification since the term "industrial" suggests factory production whereas Varnum referred to objects that today we call "Craftsman"--Rookwood pottery, Stickley furniture, Jarvie candlesticks, etc. A delightful touch is that Varnum included pictures of these objects alongside the principles by which he believed they were designed. Varnum's book offers an enlightening, if somewhat technical, insight into thinking about design before World War I. There is no doubt that the Arts and Crafts period during which the principles of simple beauty married so neatly with function can be better understood and appreciated today through Varnum's perceptions." Robert Winter
Author: Barbara Mayer Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 0811802027 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 233
Book Description
Each chapter of this book examines a different facet of this aesthetic, beginning with its European origins and proceeding to American classics, including California's Mission style. The book highlights the work of such influential designers as Gustav Stickley, L & J.G. Stickley, Charles Voysey, Greene & Greene, George Ohr, Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Charles Rohlfs, among others, and features Arts and Crafts standards, such as the Morris chair, the Stickley settle, the Tiffany lamp, and the Fulper bowl, all displayed in a variety of contemporary interiors.
Author: James C. Massey Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA) ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
Imagine visiting the greatest works of Maybeck, Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Green and Green. Across the country, there are hundreds of places to see classic examples of Arts and Crafts architecture, furniture, and art. The first guidebook of its kind, Arts & Crafts Design in America leads the way to the best of them. Including 250 detailed entries and illustrated with photographs throughout, this unique travel companion describes bungalows and other sites open to the public, noteworthy Arts and Crafts buildings that can be toured or viewed from the street, and museum collections of whole-room interiors and exceptional objects. In addition to listings helpfully organized by state, the authors offer a useful resources section and a general introduction for newcomers to the movement. For enthusiasts, travelers, and collectors, Arts & Crafts Design in America is a captivating tour of this enduring style born abroad but embraced throughout the country.
Author: Monica Penick Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300234988 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
This fresh look at the Arts and Crafts Movement charts its origins in reformist ideals, its engagement with commercial culture, and its ultimate place in everyday households.
Author: Marty Noble Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486164268 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
Inspirational, practical source of 125 superb, royalty-free illustrations for use by graphic artists and designers. Masterfully adapted from textiles, wallpaper, and other authentic sources, the motifs depict florals and insects etched into glassware, garlands of flowers in square and circular configurations, dragonflies adorning decorative bowls and platters, and much more.
Author: George E. Thomas Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568982205 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 388
Book Description
"Price, a disciple of Frank Furness who practiced in Philadelphia from 1883 to 1916, established the character of two of the nation's greatest resorts, Atlantic City and Miami, thus shaping the architecture of the Roaring Twenties.
Author: Imogen Hart Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 280
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In this groundbreaking reassessment of the conventional understanding of a cohesive "Arts and Crafts" movement in Britain, Imogen Hart argues that a sophisticated mode of looking at decorative art developed in England during the second half of the nineteenth century. Bringing to light a significant number of little-known visual and textual sources, Arts and Crafts Objects insists that the history of British design between the 1830s and the 1910s is more complex and interwoven than concepts of clearly differentiated movements allow for. Reinvesting the objects with the original importance ascribed to them by their makers and users, this book places furniture, metalwork, tiles, vases, chintzes, carpets, and wallpaper at the center of a rigorous reassessment of the concept of "Arts and Crafts." The book offers radical new interpretations of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and the homes of William Morris, alongside illuminating analyses of less familiar, but equally rich, contexts.
Author: William H. Varnum
Author: William H. Varnum
Author: Barbara Mayer
Author: James C. Massey
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Author: Marty Noble
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