Suggested Reading:

Below are  books that I have found both inspiring and informative.  Click on the title for a link to Amazon.com 
 

Greene & Greene:

Available September 2010 !


Greene & Greene Furniture - Poems of Wood & Light
by David Mathias

With nearly 200 images, roughly 150 of them new, Poems of Wood & Light provides a guided tour of the best of Greene & Greene, with a focus on the details that made their work, both furniture and architecture, exquisite. Published by F+W Media.

.......David is a gifted writer and photographer as well as a talented woodworker. His book has been long anticipated by many of us in the Greene and Greene community. If you are a fan of Greene & Greene and especially if you are a woodworker interested in the furniture of Greene & Greene - David's upcoming book is a must have!

 

Greene Book Greene & Greene  
By Edward R. Bosley

---- very detailed - the most complete and comprehensive book on Greene and Greene

Greene and Greene Furniture book

Greene and Greene: Design Elements for the Workshop

By Darrell Peart

available from this webiste

Greene FUrniture  book Greene & Greene: Furniture and Related Designs  
By Randall L. Makinson 

---- I have worn out my first copy and am now working on my second copy - a must have for G&G woodworkers.

Randall Makinson is currently working on another G&G furniture book - I can't wait!  
 

Makinson Greene Book

Greene & Greene: Architecture as a Fine Art
by Randall L.Makinson

A companion to Furniture and Related Designs - must have book for fans of G&G

Book on Greene & Greene Greene & Greene: The Passion and the Legacy
By Randall L. Makinson

-  fabulous photos!

Blacker House Book Greene & Greene: The Blacker House
By Randall L. Makinson 

 

Bruce Smith Greene Book Greene & Greene: Masterworks
By Bruce Smith & Alexander Vertikoff

----a very fine book! very informative with great photos 

Gamble House Book Images of the Gamble House: Masterwork of Greene & Greene
By Jeanette A. Thomas

 

New G&G Book

A New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene & Greene

A series of very insightful essays edited by Edward R. Bosley and Anne E. Mallek

A WONDERFUL BOOK!

Bob Lang Greene Book

Shop Drawings for Greene & Greene Furniture: 23 American Arts and Crafts Masterpieces

By Robert Lang

The first and only book of measured Drawings featuring original G&G furniture. If you are a G&G woodworker or just a student of G&G you must have this book!

Stickley:
Stickley Book The Furniture of Gustav Stickley : History, Techniques, Projects
by Joseph J. Bavaro, Thomas L. Mossman (Contributor), Joseph J. Baravro

---- a biography and furniture plans - 

photo unavailable Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs : Unabridged Reprints of Two Mission Furniture Catalogs
by George Stickley, Gustav Stickley, L. Stickley, J. G. Stickley (Contributor)

 

 Arts & Crafts Furniture: (Various)
Roycroft Book Roycroft Furniture Catalog, 1906 

by Roycrofters

photo unavailable Limbert's Arts Crafts Furniture

by Charles P Limbert Co.

 ---- catalog reprint  - many very interesting pieces of furniture --- out of print -  but worth a search

 

photo unavailable Limbert Arts and Crafts Furniture : The Complete 1903 Catalog (Dover Books on Antiques and Furniture)

by Charles P Limbert Co.


Arts & Crafts Movement :(Various)
Arts & Crafts Movement in America The Art That Is Life : The Art & Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920

by Wendy Kaplan 

---- the history and philosophy of the American Arts & Crafts Movement

Arts & Crafts Style


by Isabelle Anscombe

---- also the history and philosophy of the Arts & Crafts movement but more on the English/European origins 

 

Inside the Bungalow Inside the Bungalow : America's Arts & Crafts Interior

by Paul Duchscherer, Douglas Keister (Photographer) 

---- beautiful photos and informative text !

Bernard Maybeck Bernard Maybeck : Visionary Architect

by Sally Byrne Woodbridge, Richard Barnes (Photographer) 

---- a very interesting person (Maybeck) - a real free thinker!


   
   
   
 

Furniture Making and Furniture Design

 
Encyclopedia of Furnituremaking Encyclopedia of Furniture Making


by Ernest Joyce, Alan Peters

---- a must have for serious furniture makers! - a wealth of information

 

Chippendale Gentleman and Cabinet Maker Director

by Thomas Chippendale

---- very ornate busy designs but worth studying the proportioning and balance

photo unavailable Arts & Crafts Design : A Selected Reprint of Industrial Arts Design


by William Harrison Varnum

----  the BEST book I have found on furniture design!!!

 

photo unavailable Planecraft

by C.W. Hampton, Clifford E. Hampton

---- a wonderful book on hand planes  published 1934 - out of print but worth a search


photo unavailable Adventures in Wood Finishing

by George Frank

---- a quirky book that reads like a novel - very fun!  - out of print but worth a search


   
 

James Krenov:

 
Krenov A Cabinetmaker's Notebook


by James Krenov

---- anything by Krenov is very  inspiring !    
         wonderful sense of design (not Arts & Crafts Style)

The Impractical Cabinetmaker

 

by James Krenov

Krenov Book The Fine Art of Cabinetmaking

by James Krenov

 

 

 

 

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