The Beautiful Necessity • Arts & Crafts • Antique Furniture • Interior Design

Description: The Beautiful Necessity By Bruce Smith and Yoshiko Yamamoto Softcover with 160 pages Published in 2004 by Gibbs Smith 8.5 x 11 x 0.5 inches From the traditional - Greene and Greene, Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright, and others - to the contemporary - Berkely Mills, Warren Hiles, East/West Furniture Design, and more - the Arts and Crafts movement is well represented here. All 140 exquisite photographs demonstrate how the Craftsman style has brought stunning warmth yet utilitarian ease to homes past and present. San Francisco Chronicle This lavish volume, filled with color photographs, discusses how the Arts & Crafts movement came into its own, how it was expressed in various regions of the country, and how current devotees can re-create its interior features. Although the functional beauty of the Arts and Crafts movement has long been a part of American culture, it is now being revitalized by simplicity-seekers trying to counteract the fast pace of contemporary living. The elegant simplicity of Craftsman ideals is time-defying. The rooms and furnishings of The Beautiful Necessity reveals this beautifully. Excerpt Home space. It is the space where people dance, sit, read, sleep, share meals with family and friends, laugh, feel secure, face the world. The idea of space changed drastically with houses built under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement. Interior opened up, floor plans become more asymmetrical, the uses of space became more flexible, small spaces assumed new meanings, life within the house flowed more freely, and there was a strong bonding made between space within the home and with the natural world outside. About the Authors Bruce Smith lover of history and historical writing, write on the Arts and Crafts movement, bungalows, craft, and food. Smith was the editor of American Bungalow News and associate editor of American Bungalow magazine. Smith co-owns The Arts and Crafts Press in Berkely, California, publishers of The Tabby: A Chronicle of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Yoshiko Yamamoto, lover of history and historical writing, write on the Arts and Crafts movement, bungalows, craft, and food. Yamamoto is both a student of life and of history. Yamamoto co-owns The Arts and Crafts Press in Berkely, California, publishers of The Tabby: A Chronicle of the Arts and Crafts Movement. N25 70 NO STOCK IMAGES USED!! EVER!! All images on this listing have been made of the actual book or other item listed. All photographs and scans are produced by distractedexpansionist. This applies to all books and other items listed by distractedexpansionist.

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