{"product_id":"building-with-nature-inspiration-for-the-arts-crafts-home-9781586854638","title":"Building With Nature: Inspiration For The Arts \u0026 Crafts Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \"Building with Nature: Inspiration for the Arts \u0026amp; Crafts Home\" Freudenheim weaves together the lives and philosophies of William Morris  John Ruskin  Frederick Law Olmsted  John Muir  Greene \u0026amp; 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 ground-breaking 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 Worcesters friends  A. Page Brown  Willis Polk  Bruce Porter  Ernest Coxhead and Bernard Maybeck established the first American Arts \u0026amp; 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 \u0026amp; Crafts Movement in the Bay Region.  The book shows how Gustav Stickley found Californias architecture so inspiring during his four-month 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 cross-fertilization 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 alive--and the Arts and Crafts that all the others were screaming about are here actually being produced...on the Pacific Coast.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647891759157,"sku":"ByrdShop_1586854631","price":48.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781586854638.jpg?v=1781699201","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/building-with-nature-inspiration-for-the-arts-crafts-home-9781586854638","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}