The Sacramento Bungalow Heritage Association‘s Holiday Social is scheduled for the early evening of Saturday, December 11th.
They are issuing a call for Sacramento Bunglows, so if you or someone you know would be willing to volunteer a home for this annual SBHA event, please contact Susan Bellew at 916.455.5908 or via email.
When we moved into our home in 1998, we decided to furnish our main floor with Arts & Crafts furniture. We saw Tom Stangeland‘s Greene & Greene dining room table (modeled on one in the Blacker House in Pasadena) at NW Fine Woodworking here in Seattle and this was (to quote Casablanca) the “beginning of a beautiful [creative] friendship.”
Looking for authentic antique Prairie, Craftsman or A&C furniture, accessories or artwork? Check out the unsold lots at Treadway/Toomey Galleries. A resource to keep an eye on.
When it comes to Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture nothing takes the place of visiting in person and experiencing his environments first hand. I will never forget the first time I visited Fallingwater after years of studying photos and models. It’s the scale of the buildings that is most striking. I maintain that any Wright building you have seen in pictures is about 60% the size you think it is.
E. Fay Jones, FAIA died yesterday at his home in Fayetteville, Arkansas at age 83.
Born in 1921, Euine Fay Jones studied architecture at the University of Arkansas and at the University of Houston. He apprenticed under Frank Llloyd Wright in the Taliesin fellowship before starting his own Fayetteville practice. He was the recipient of the AIA Gold Medal in 1990. Jones was probably best known for his elevating chapels assembled out of numerous thin pieces of wood, such as the Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and the Pinecote Pavilion at the Crosby Arboretum in Picayune, Mississippi.
A good biography with links to books and other sites is available in his Wikipedia entry.
American Bungalow magazine offers a registry for your bungalow. The registry is a privately funded archive of period homes, established to protect and preserve America’s historic houses and neighborhoods, encourage the bungalow way of life, and save a few bungalows in the process. To register, fill out the form, print and fax or mail to American Bungalow. Please note, this registry does not restrict or imply any kind of regulation on your home or on future homeowners.
Are the names Kipp and Jennings as familiar to you as Roycroft and Hubbard? Well, if you know your Arts & Crafts metalwork, they should be! This small group of artisans produced some of the most exquisite arts & crafts metal pieces of the era.
Building on the Arts & Craft movement of an earlier time, Guild.com is a treasure trove of current artists working in metalwork, ceramics, printmaking, painting, fiber, glass, wood, lighting, furniture and tableware.
The Arts & Crafts masters of yesteryear would have enthusiastically approved of The Guild’s Philosophy: In a nutshell, we believe that when you live with art that you love, and it’s made by a gifted artist with skill and care, it adds something rich and sweet to your life, every day.
Woodturning is an art and a science. Using tools, technique and the eye of an artist, a simple piece of maple can become an elegant and perfect bowl.
Kim Blatt is doing woodturning work that is worthy of gracing any Stickley table. And the American Association of Woodturners shows us that this craft is still thriving today.
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