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Greene & Greene: Design Elements for the Workshop | 
| Author: Darrell Peart
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0941936961
Dewey Decimal Number: 684.104
EAN: 9780941936965
ASIN: 0941936961
Publication Date: April 1, 2006
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Product Description
Considered among the highest achievements of the American arts and crafts movement, Greene & Greene furniture was custom-built for specific interior spaces, and many of the pieces still remain in their original locations. This manual, written by a nationally recognized furniture maker, provides intermediate and advanced woodworkers with well illustrated, step-by-step instructions for classic Greene & Greene details, including ebony plugs, cloud lifts, leg indents, brackets, and pulls. A discussion of the design philosophy of the period accompanies how-to chapters, and photographs of contemporary Greene-inspired furniture provide ideas for projects. Biographical sketches are included for Charles and Henry Greene, Peter and John Hall (who built most of the furniture), and competing furniture maker Gustav Stickley.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Amazing detail reveals secrets of the masters September 2, 2008
Nick Andrews (Las Cruces, NM, United States)
In this book, Darrell really went to extra lengths to show how this remarkable furniture was made and how to build your own tribute to the masters, the Hall brothers and the Greene brothers. You will gain insight on how things were done 'the right way' 100 years ago that is available nowhere else. The X-rays of joints alone are worth the price of the book.
Great "How to" techniques for Greene and Greene Designs February 19, 2008
valueman
I have built Arts and Crafts style furniture for many years and have always loved the Greene and Greene style. This book gives some history and background on the style but it's real value is in the very detailed explanations of how to execute the details Greene and Greene. It's practical and well written. Where jigs are necessary they are described and photographed in detail. I have now purchased the plans for the author's bedside table and plan on making that when I get the half dozen pieces I am working on now finished. A fun book even if you never build anything.
Excellent for furnituremakers and designers November 6, 2007
A. Babcock (California)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and am looking forward to doing a piece in the Greene & Greene style. Peart makes gorgeous furniture, and his treatment of design and construction of G&G stuff is clear, intelligent, and sensitive.
The first section, on the history of Greene and Greene, is perhaps less compelling. I read it with interest, because it's the first book I've read on G&G, but Peart's strengths as a writer are more in the direction of design and technique than in biography. Readers most interested in biography and history might want to look elsewhere.
This is not a serious drawback: the book delivers what the title promises--design elements for the workshop. It does this so well that I ask, with another reviewer, when volume two is coming out.
Greene & Greene Design Elements February 15, 2007
G. Szeflinski (Greendale WI USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
A very good book on how the many design elements used in the manufacture of Greene & Greene furniture come together. The color illustrations and accompaning text are easy to understand and easily guide any interested woodworker or patron of this arts & crafts furniture builder. The only small comment would be - when's the next add on edition coming?
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