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The beautiful necessity : decorating with arts & crafts

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    Victorian needlepoint

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    A selection of Victorian patterns inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement for cross-stitching pillows, rugs, chair coverings, and wall hangings.

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    In the arts & crafts style

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    "The Arts and Crafts movement has never gone out of fashion in America. Since its birth at the turn of the century, the Arts and Crafts style, with its uncompromising workmanship and simple elegance, has innovated home design. Today, the genre is experiencing a dramatic renaissance, and its admirers are bringing the timeless beauty of the style into their homes with renewed enthusiasm. In the Arts & Crafts Style illustrates this exciting movement, taking the reader on a compelling and inspirational visual journey." "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." "The book concludes with an extensive source listing of dealers, auctioneers, and contemporary cabinetmakers and artisans that carry or produce furnishings in the Arts and Crafts style. With radiant, original photography and engaging text, In the Arts & Crafts Style reveals a world that has remained unexplored until now: the actual homes of enthusiasts who live with this enduring beauty every day."--Jacket

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    The Arts & crafts movement

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    ""The Arts and Crafts Movement looks at its leading personalities, their creative output and philosophy behind their methods of production and design ... The work of printers, bookbinders, ceramicists, furniture and glass makers, jewellers, painters, sculptors and architects is fully illustrated and discussed, and the thoughts of contemporary followers and commentators on the Movement are given their rightful place."--Goodreads.

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  • A couple in the garden beside a beautiful 2 story Arts & Crafts Home

    A couple in the garden beside a beautiful 2 story Arts & Crafts Home

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    A couple in the garden beside a beautiful 2 story Arts & Crafts Home.

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  • Arts and Crafts at the Chautauqua Summer Schools

    Arts and Crafts at the Chautauqua Summer Schools

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    One flyer entitled Arts and Crafts at the Chautauqua Summer Schools, published by Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, 1930. This 8-page (a single sheet folded into fourths) brochure advertises various summer classes offered by the Chautauqua School of Arts and Crafts. The classes offered fall under three broad categories: Art Education, Industrial Arts, and Practical Craft Courses. The dates of this particular summer program are July 7-August 15, 1930. This brochure is accompanied by a mailing envelope addressed to "Miss Mabel Spofford, Winchester Arms, Gloucester, Mass."

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    The Encyclopedia of decorative arts, 1890-1940

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    There have been many books on the individual movements and figures of the decorative arts of this century, but "The Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts 1890-1940" is the first to provide a comprehensive and authoritative account of all the classic movements in design of the modern period. Every section of this encyclopedia has been written by an expert in that particular field. The editor of the volume is Philippe Garner, an expert at the London auction house of Sotheby Parke Bernet and head of the department of modern decorative arts and photography at Sotheby's Belgravia.

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