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Arts & Crafts Movement: A Superb Visual Guide to This Significant period of Design Reform 1850-1920. New York: Todtri, 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Fine/fine. This superb guide filled with beautiful color illustrations shows the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement in an extraordinarily broad range of work -- from furniture, metalwork, textiles to glasswork and pottery. The book charts the eclectic output of the movement, as well as its intriguing historical and intellectual development, illuminating the careers and creations of the major Arts and Crafts proponents and artisans. Includes an index and a listing of the major craftsmen. Book #01277. $22.00.



Prairie Style: House and Gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School
Legler, Dixie
New York:
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1999


It was a new look for a new century. Low, ground-hugging houses with refreshingly spacious interiors under sweeping roofs, leading to terraces reaching out to nature, all dressed in the colors of the prairie in autumn and simplified with built-in furniture. A group of idealistic young architects in Chicago, led by Frank Lloyd Wright, had succeeded in their quiet revolt against the fussiness of Victorian houses. Gazing toward the horizon, they saw the prairie as the perfect metaphor for redefining the American home.. "Prairie Style opens the doors into three dozen of the astonishingly new houses, gardens, and entire communities brought about by this revolutionary band. These sheltering Prairie-style houses, captured in Christian Korab's all-new color photographs, inspired generations of homes to come and changed the shape of suburban America. 225 illustrations.






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