Imagen 1 de 2
Foto genérica
Imagen 1 de 2
Foto genérica
At Home with Gustav Stickley : Arts and Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser (2008, Hardcover)
A
aFrolicOfTheirOwn (3082)
100% de votos positivos
Precio:
USD19,60
Aproximadamente16,77 EUR
+ USD29,56 de envío
Devoluciones:
30 días para devoluciones. El comprador paga el envío de la devolución..
Estado:
Publisher: Wadsworth Atheneum. Release Date: 2008. All Photos are of the actual book(s) up for sale. Condition: Used: Very Good. Qty Available: 1.
- ¡Cómpralo ya!At Home With Gustav Stickley: Arts & Crafts... (Wadsworth Atheneum, 2008) HC
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
Acerca de este artículo
Product Identifiers
PublisherWadsworth Atheneum
ISBN-100918333245
ISBN-139780918333247
eBay Product ID (ePID)66903986
Product Key Features
Book TitleAt Home with Gustav Stickley : Arts and Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection
Number of Pages120 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, Individual Architects & Firms / General, General, Decorative Arts
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Art, Architecture, Antiques & Collectibles
AuthorElizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight33.7 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width9.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-035503
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal745.092
SynopsisDuring his first years as an Arts and Crafts furniture maker, from about mid-1900 to early 1904, Gustav Stickley and his designers created the most significant cabinetwork his firm would ever produce. For the most part made of quarter-sawn American oak, this furniture was substantial, subtly proportioned, essentially rectilinear, and built using traditional joinery-for instance, tenon and key, dovetail, pinned through tenons-and employing hand-wrought copper or iron hardware. These structural elements were both functional and symbolic, literally holding the furniture together while also expressing its moral aesthetic: though a factory product, every piece was solidly, honestly made.Stephen Gray is among those few who, early on, recognized both the inherent beauty of Arts and Crafts furniture and the value of the Craftsman Ideal. His collection includes many of the rarest forms and has few equals, but in two regards, it is almost singular: Stephen Gray lives with this major collection and has embraced the Craftsman Ideal in a beautiful, simple, personal, regionally sensitive manner. He lives in a nineteenth-century country house and has integrated an important collection with the ideas of decorating, lifestyle, and sensitivity to environment that were central to the Craftsman enterprise. Through Stephen Gray's collection, it is possible to explore the disparate values of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Arts and Crafts interior, and the tensions inherent in the pursuit of an aesthetically simple Ideal life. This lavishly illustrated book features Stickley's furniture, including many photographs of Stickley designs in use, and it also includes some fine examples of art pottery, lighting fixtures, tiles, and color woodblock prints. The essays by David Cathers on Stickley's early work and Tommy McPherson, who compares Stephen Gray's living room to Stickley's own living room at Craftsman Farms, put Stickley's work into perspective. The introduction by Stephen Gray touches on collecting and living with Stickley., During his first years as an Arts and Crafts furniture maker, from about mid-1900 to early 1904, Gustav Stickley and his designers created the most significant cabinetwork his firm would ever produce. For the most part made of quarter-sawn American oak, this furniture was substantial, subtly proportioned, essentially rectilinear, and built using traditional joinery--for instance, tenon and key, dovetail, pinned through tenons--and employing hand-wrought copper or iron hardware. These structural elements were both functional and symbolic, literally holding the furniture together while also expressing its moral aesthetic: though a factory product, every piece was solidly, honestly made. Stephen Gray is among those few who, early on, recognized both the inherent beauty of Arts and Crafts furniture and the value of the Craftsman Ideal. His collection includes many of the rarest forms and has few equals, but in two regards, it is almost singular: Stephen Gray lives with this major collection and has embraced the Craftsman Ideal in a beautiful, simple, personal, regionally sensitive manner. He lives in a nineteenth-century country house and has integrated an important collection with the ideas of decorating, lifestyle, and sensitivity to environment that were central to the Craftsman enterprise. Through Stephen Gray's collection, it is possible to explore the disparate values of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the Arts and Crafts interior, and the tensions inherent in the pursuit of an aesthetically simple Ideal life. This lavishly illustrated book features Stickley's furniture, including many photographs of Stickley designs in use, and it also includes some fine examples of art pottery, lighting fixtures, tiles, and color woodblock prints. The essays by David Cathers on Stickley's early work and Tommy McPherson, who compares Stephen Gray's living room to Stickley's own living room at Craftsman Farms, put Stickley's work into perspective. The introduction by Stephen Gray touches on collecting and living with Stickley.
LC Classification NumberNK2439.S8A4 2009
