Building with nature : inspiration for the arts & crafts home / Leslie M. Freudenheim
2005, First Edition. Salt Lake City : Gibbs Smith. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 229 pages; Description: xii, 229 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Summary: Building with Nature: Roots of the San Francisco Bay Region Tradition, focuses on the beginnings (1865 and on) of the Bay Area shingle style and Arts & Crafts collaboration in California, and the origins of the trend toward building simple rustic homes in harmony with nature. Freudenheim explores how and why a small, influential group of Californians (including Joseph Worcester, Bernard Maybeck, Charles Keeler, William Keith, Charles Lummis, A. Page Brown, and others)--all of whom had come from the East or from England--were especially devoted to Ruskin and the Arts & Crafts style and how this combined with their dedication to California's natural beauty to create a unique architectural movement. Subjects: Worcester, Joseph, 1836-1913 --Influence. Architecture, Domestic --California --San Francisco Bay Area. Arts and crafts movement -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History -- 19th / 20th century. Item #215639
ISBN: 1586854631
Price: €16.95