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Building With Nature: Inspiration For The Arts And Crafts Home
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In Building With Nature: Inspiration For The Arts & Crafts Home Freudenheim Weaves Together The Lives And Philosophies Of William Morris, John Ruskin, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Muir, Greene & Greene, Irving Gill, Bernard Maybeck, And Others With The Dramatic Economic, Social, Design And Cultural Changes That Took Place In America Between 1876 And 1916. Chronicling Both Intellectual Theory And Architectural History, This Groundbreaking Book Will Appeal To General Readers As Well As To Those Enthusiastic About The Arts And Crafts Movement, Its Architecture And Furniture.Freudenheim Demonstrates How The Simple Life Manifested In The Rustic Architecture Found In Yosemite, English Cottages, Japanese Barns, And Swiss Chalets, Became The Basis For The Design Of The American Arts And Crafts Home Advocated By These Pioneering Thinkers. Their Devotion To Simplicity For Both The Interior And Exterior Design Of These Houses Also Helps To Explain Why They Embraced Plain, Sturdy Mission Style Furniture. Freudenheim Points Out How Numerous Individuals, Both American And British, Helped Spread These Ideas Across America.Building With Nature Charts The Influence Of Reverend Joseph Worcester Of The San Francisco Swedenborgian Church For Whom The First Mission Style Chair Was Designed In 1894. The Book Also Shows How Worcester'S Friends, A. Page Brown, Willis Polk, Bruce Porter, Ernest Coxhead And Bernard Maybeck Established The First American Arts & Crafts Society Or Guild In 1894. Freudenheim Also Explores The Possible Role Of A. C. Schweinfurth In The Design Of The Swedenborgian Church And Quotes Extensively From Charles Keeler Who Documented The Growth Of The Arts & Crafts Movement In The Bay Region.The Book Shows How Gustav Stickley Found California'S Architecture So Inspiring During His Fourmonth Exploration Of The State In 1904 That He Thereafter Promoted Numerous Versions Of The California Arts And Crafts Home In Craftsman Magazine. In The August 1912 Issue Stickley Argued: The Value Of Western Architecture, Locally And To The Nation At Large, And Its Widening Influence Upon Homebuilding All Over The Country, Are Facts Not To Be Estimated Lightly....Describing The Crossfertilization Of American And European Ideas, Freudenheim Also Quotes Visitors Such As C.R. Ashbee, The English Arts And Crafts Architect And Founder Of The School And Guild Of Handicraft In London, Who Knew The American Arts And Crafts Scene Well, Having Traveled In The East And Midwest Multiple Times From 1896 On. In Early 1909, Ashbee Visited Both Northern And Southern California And Enthused: California Speaks.... Here Things Are Really Aliveand The Arts And Crafts That All The Others Were Screaming About Are Here Actually Being Produced...On The Pacific Coast.
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