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Description:The House Beautiful reproduces - in its entirety- a book designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and hand-printed at the tiny Auvergne Press in 1897, where only 90 copies of this exquisite artisan book were produced. Wright's intricate drawings surround an essay by William Gannett reflecting on the importance of tasteful design for a harmonious home, and further, how a harmonious home augments spiritual, intellectual, societal, and corporeal health. This beautifully reproduced edition contains an essay by architectural historian Paul Kruty placing Wright's book in the context of the Arts and Crafts movement in America.The last two decades of the nineteenth century saw the emergence of a global Arts and Crafts movement as a backlash against the machine-made, mass-production mind-set of the Industrial Revolution. Conceived in Britain by writer John Ruskin, socialist poet and designer William Morris, and designer-architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, among others, the movement sought a return to a handcrafted aesthetic that would apply the highest artistic principles to a wide spectrum of human creation - from major works of art and architecture to common and affordable, items for day-to-day use in the home. Wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, cabinets, and even books - virtually anything could be designed with an emphasis on artistic beauty, as Morris, Mackintosh, and company would so ably prove.In America, the Arts and Crafts movement rippled throughout the art world and found an advocate in publisher William Herman Winslow, who in 1896 established the tiny Auvergne Press in his Chicago-area home to produce exquisitely beautiful hand press editions of books espousing the Arts and Crafts aesthetic. For the page design he turned to another champion of the movement, who also happened to be the Young architect he had hired to design his own home: the incomparable Frank Lloyd Wright.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The House Beautiful: A Book Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. To get started finding The House Beautiful: A Book Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0764937642

Description: The House Beautiful reproduces - in its entirety- a book designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and hand-printed at the tiny Auvergne Press in 1897, where only 90 copies of this exquisite artisan book were produced. Wright's intricate drawings surround an essay by William Gannett reflecting on the importance of tasteful design for a harmonious home, and further, how a harmonious home augments spiritual, intellectual, societal, and corporeal health. This beautifully reproduced edition contains an essay by architectural historian Paul Kruty placing Wright's book in the context of the Arts and Crafts movement in America.The last two decades of the nineteenth century saw the emergence of a global Arts and Crafts movement as a backlash against the machine-made, mass-production mind-set of the Industrial Revolution. Conceived in Britain by writer John Ruskin, socialist poet and designer William Morris, and designer-architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, among others, the movement sought a return to a handcrafted aesthetic that would apply the highest artistic principles to a wide spectrum of human creation - from major works of art and architecture to common and affordable, items for day-to-day use in the home. Wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, cabinets, and even books - virtually anything could be designed with an emphasis on artistic beauty, as Morris, Mackintosh, and company would so ably prove.In America, the Arts and Crafts movement rippled throughout the art world and found an advocate in publisher William Herman Winslow, who in 1896 established the tiny Auvergne Press in his Chicago-area home to produce exquisitely beautiful hand press editions of books espousing the Arts and Crafts aesthetic. For the page design he turned to another champion of the movement, who also happened to be the Young architect he had hired to design his own home: the incomparable Frank Lloyd Wright.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The House Beautiful: A Book Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. To get started finding The House Beautiful: A Book Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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