Toward a Simpler Way of Life: the Arts & Crafts Architects of California

Winter, Robert

ISBN 10: 0520209168 / ISBN 13: 9780520209169

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif, 1997

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Black large quarto, brown cloth; 310 pages: illustrations. Inscribed by author/editor: "Bungalow Bob 6/5/97" on title page and by contributor Edward R. Bosley on page 11. Contents: Introduction: the myth of California expressed in arts and crafts theory / Robert Winter -- A.C. Schweinfurth / Edward R. Bosley -- Ernest Coxhead / Jeremy Kotas -- John Galen Howard / Joan Draper -- Louis Christian Mullgardt / Robert Judson Clark -- Bernard Maybeck / Jeffrey W. Limerick -- Julia Morgan / Sara Holmes Boutelle -- Henry Gutterson / Susan Dinkelspiel Cerny -- John Hudson Thomas / Thomas Gordon Smith -- William Raymond Yelland / Lauren Weiss Bricker -- Francis T. Underhill / David Gebhard -- Frederick Louis Roehrig / Robert Winter -- Charles and Henry Greene / Randall L. Makinson --Arthur S. and Alfred Heineman / Robert Winter -- Louis B. Easton / Tim Andersen -- Elmer Grey / David Gebhard -- Sylvanus B. Marston / Edward R. Bosley -- Sumner P. Hunt; Arthur B. Benton / Karen J. Weitze -- Irving J. Gill / David Gebhard -- Emmonr Brooke Weaver / Alexander D. Bevil -- Hazel Wood Waterman / Sally Bullard Thornton-- Frank Mead and Richard Requa / Lucinda Eddy -- William W. Wurster / Daniel Gregory -- Charles Warren Callister / Sally B. Woodbridge -- Joseph Esherick / Daniel Gregory -- Harwell H. Harris / David Gebhard -- Cliff May / David Bricker -- Calvin Straub (Buff, Staub, and Hensman) / Shelly Kappe. Architecture -- California. Arts and crafts movement -- 19th century -- Modern-- 20th century -- Regional -- Criticism. **Weighs 3 lbs 10 oz before packing. Extra shipping charges may apply.**. Fine in fine jacket in an archival mylar sleeve. in fine dust-jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toward a Simpler Way of Life: the Arts & Crafts Architects of California
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520209168
• ISBN 13: 9780520209169
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art, Architecture, Design & Photography

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Synopsis

This book celebrates one of the richest and most enduring themes in American architecture―California's Arts and Crafts Movement. Echoing the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis, and Charles Keeler, this movement represented a retreat into a quieter place from the materialism of American society. Anti-commercial, anti-modern, Arts and Crafts practitioners drew on the decorative schemes of English Tudor, Swiss chalet, Japanese temple, and Spanish mission, evoking an earlier time before modern industry and technology intruded. And if only one word is used to describe virtually every Arts and Crafts house in California, that word is "woodsy": wood shingles outside, wood paneling inside, a wood fire burning in the homey, welcoming fireplace.

Most chapters in this impressive and very readable book focus on one building by a particular architect or designer and illustrate that person's development and influences. Familiar architects such as Bernard Maybeck, Charles and Henry Greene, John Galen Howard, and Julia Morgan are here, but so too are less well-known names who were a vibrant part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. These late Romantics designed houses to complement nature rather than contrast with it. Their eclecticism and historicism reflected a Romantic bent as well, no doubt cultivated by their familiarity with the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where, in fact, Howard, Maybeck, and Morgan studied.

The book's contributors also give attention to the builders, contractors, and craftsmen whose skills contributed to the lasting impact of the California Arts and Crafts Movement. Superb illustrations provide examples of elevations, composition details, interior fixtures, and gardens, all designed to promote the "simple living and high thinking" of the Craftsman style, an esthetic that continues to influence architecture today.

About the Author

Robert Winter is Arthur G. Coons Professor of the History of Ideas, Emeritus, at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the author of The California Bungalow (1980), American Bungalow Style (1996), and coauthor of A Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California (1985) and Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide (1994).