Originally published in 1916 when the Arts & Crafts movement was in its heyday, this is a virtual textbook of materials, color, techniques, and designs. Arts & Crafts Design is a practical guide to the creation of high-quality, high-style furnishings through the industrial arts. "In this relativistic age in which de gustilrie non disputandum est (it is undisputed that each person has their own sense of taste), it is refreshing to look back to the early twentieth century when at least a few people were certain that there are universal rules for good art and also that they had themselves mastered these precepts and could pass them on to a society that loved commonly held values. William H. Varnum was one of those people. He offers here a textbook that will, if followed, allow students to 'directly apply well-recognized principles of design to specific materials and problems.' No situation esthetics here. In fact, he followed these principles in designing the logos representing his tools and ratio system on the cover of his book. "The publisher of this new edition has added a useful foreword and substitued the title Arts and Crafts Design for the original (1916) Industrial Arts Design, an appropriate modification since the term "industrial" suggests factory production whereas Varnum referred to objects that today we call "Craftsman"--Rookwood pottery, Stickley furniture, Jarvie candlesticks, etc. A delightful touch is that Varnum included pictures of these objects alongside the principles by which he believed they were designed. Varnum's book offers an enlightening, if somewhat technical, insight into thinking about design before World War I. There is no doubt that the Arts and Crafts period during which the principles of simple beauty married so neatly with function can be better understood and appreciated today through Varnum's perceptions." Robert Winter

Imagine visiting the greatest works of Maybeck, Morris, Frank Lloyd Wright, Green and Green. Across the country, there are hundreds of places to see classic examples of Arts and Crafts architecture, furniture, and art. The first guidebook of its kind, Arts & Crafts Design in America leads the way to the best of them. Including 250 detailed entries and illustrated with photographs throughout, this unique travel companion describes bungalows and other sites open to the public, noteworthy Arts and Crafts buildings that can be toured or viewed from the street, and museum collections of whole-room interiors and exceptional objects. In addition to listings helpfully organized by state, the authors offer a useful resources section and a general introduction for newcomers to the movement. For enthusiasts, travelers, and collectors, Arts & Crafts Design in America is a captivating tour of this enduring style born abroad but embraced throughout the country.

Briefly describes the Arts and Crafts movement and shows examples of designs for pottery and dinnerware

This fresh look at the Arts and Crafts Movement charts its origins in reformist ideals, its engagement with commercial culture, and its ultimate place in everyday households.

Inspirational, practical source of 125 superb, royalty-free illustrations for use by graphic artists and designers. Masterfully adapted from textiles, wallpaper, and other authentic sources, the motifs depict florals and insects etched into glassware, garlands of flowers in square and circular configurations, dragonflies adorning decorative bowls and platters, and much more.

"Price, a disciple of Frank Furness who practiced in Philadelphia from 1883 to 1916, established the character of two of the nation's greatest resorts, Atlantic City and Miami, thus shaping the architecture of the Roaring Twenties.

Designs culled from the Arts and Crafts movement in America and England as well as a few from France, Italy and elsewhere from the late 19th century to the 1920s.