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Thursday, February 12, 2015
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Characteristics of Arts and Crafts Furniture
A&C style can range from simplistic to ornate and is hard to clarify by appearance alone. Instead it is better defined by philosophy of form, materials and craftsmanship. Drawing from a great resource on the subject Arts and Crafts Furniture, from Classic to Contemporary by Rodel and Binzen I have created the following list of the styles key characteristics starting with form. To help those of us that might be building table I used tables for my examples shown in order of mention below:The Forms of Arts and Crafts Furniture
- Straightforward form
- Functional with somewhat severe

- Typically: linear motif with flat planes but can range from chunky to rectilinear to It can ornate and highly refined
- The heavy simplistic Workaday style of Morris & Company (image from SD Woodworking)

- The lighter rectilinear style of California’s Greene and Greene (image from Fine Woodworking.com)
- The more refined State style designed by George Washington Jack for Morris & Company (image from Arts and Crafts Furniture, from Classic to Contemporary by Rodel and Binzen)
- The very ornate style of William Price Rose Valley furniture which even includes Gothic like three-dimensional carvings (image from Arts and Crafts Furniture, from Classic to Contemporary by Rodel and Binzen)
Note:Morris & Company had two lines, Workaday and State furniture. The workaday furniture was also called cottage style, as it was more simplistic and straightforward as shown in the "chunky" example above. State furniture was more elaborate and challenging in their design, but both held to Morris’ ideal of the craftsman as shown in the example designed by George Washington Jack above.
Monday, January 27, 2014
The Arts Crafts Companion
A Book by Pamela Todd
My wife gave me this book as a birthday present a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to let you know about it. If you search Amazon for books on Arts and Crafts then youd better start building yourself a new library! There are hundreds of books published on the style but this one really stands out from the bunch. Its a beautiful book and while most of you manly woodworkers out there may walk past it on a book shelf, perhaps because of its pretty pink cover, I assure you its a great reference to the style. Pamela Todd gives a wonderful history lesson of the movement and follows it through from one side of the Atlantic to the other. She introduces all of the key players from William Morris and Edwin Lutyens to Frank Lloyd Wright and the brothers Greene. What I really enjoyed about this book is the fact that its not only a great furniture resource but displays other mediums such as architecture, textiles, applied arts, lighting, tiles and ceramics, glass and pottery, metalwork, embroidery, and even the garden.
As someone who enjoys designing and building furniture, its hard not to admire and be drawn to this body of work. I find it creeping into my pieces more and more and welcome the breathe it adds to design. Im working on a couple of pieces Im going to make over the winter and have consciously added some of these elements. If youre a fan of the craft then you may want to pick this one up.
"What business have we with art at all, if we all cannot share it?"
William Morris
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My wife gave me this book as a birthday present a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to let you know about it. If you search Amazon for books on Arts and Crafts then youd better start building yourself a new library! There are hundreds of books published on the style but this one really stands out from the bunch. Its a beautiful book and while most of you manly woodworkers out there may walk past it on a book shelf, perhaps because of its pretty pink cover, I assure you its a great reference to the style. Pamela Todd gives a wonderful history lesson of the movement and follows it through from one side of the Atlantic to the other. She introduces all of the key players from William Morris and Edwin Lutyens to Frank Lloyd Wright and the brothers Greene. What I really enjoyed about this book is the fact that its not only a great furniture resource but displays other mediums such as architecture, textiles, applied arts, lighting, tiles and ceramics, glass and pottery, metalwork, embroidery, and even the garden.As someone who enjoys designing and building furniture, its hard not to admire and be drawn to this body of work. I find it creeping into my pieces more and more and welcome the breathe it adds to design. Im working on a couple of pieces Im going to make over the winter and have consciously added some of these elements. If youre a fan of the craft then you may want to pick this one up.
"What business have we with art at all, if we all cannot share it?"
William Morris
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