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Greene & Greene Furniture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Greene & Greene Furniture

One hundred years ago Charles and Henry Greene developed a new and distinctive architectural and decorative style that blended Arts & Crafts and Asian influences with California sensibility and obsessive attention to detail. That innovative style is instantly recognizable today. "David Mathias, author of this richly personal appreciation of the Greenes…comes to Greene and Greene from the perspective of an amateur woodworker with a fine aesthetic sense. Through his writing we are able to appreciate the Greenes' houses and furnishings almost as if we were hearing from one of their builders. Through stunning and perceptive new photography, the illustrated spaces and furnishings illuminate the...

In the Greene & Greene Style
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 121

In the Greene & Greene Style

Legendary architects and designers Charles and Henry Greene created a uniquely American style in the Arts & Crafts tradition, and this book combines a detailed understanding of their design aesthetic with specific shop instructions for re-creating their works. Filled with step-by-step instructions, extensive illustrations, and full-color photographs, the book features several full projects for making replica Greene & Greene furniture complete with authentic details such as ebony plugs and splines, waterfall legs, and curved drawer pulls. Showing today's woodworkers precisely how the Greenes achieved their unique designs, ""In the Style of Greene & Greene"" also includes valuable advice on incorporating Arts & Crafts elements into new designs.

Greene & Greene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Greene & Greene

This text presents an overview of the architectural careers of Charles and Henry Greene. Their projects are categorized into periods and styles, beginnning in 1894 in Pasadena, and culminating in their separate careers, with Charles practising in Carmel and Henry remaining in Pasadena.

Greene and Greene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Greene and Greene

Surveys twenty-five masterpieces produced by the firm.

A New and Native Beauty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

A New and Native Beauty

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Greene & Greene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Greene & Greene

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-09-23
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  • Publisher: Phaidon

A critical monograph charting the careers of Charles and Henry Greene.

Greene and Greene Creating a Style
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

Greene and Greene Creating a Style

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-09
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  • Publisher: Gibbs Smith

n this fascinating new look at the work of Charles and Henry Greene, masters of the bungalow design, renowned authors Randell L. Makinson and Thomas A. Heinz assert that not only were the brothers Greene geniuses of their time, but that they also developed a distinct architectural and design style that has been the model for generations of architects since, and continues to reign today.Examining the individual plans, materials, and interiors of some of the most distinguished work of the Greenes, and illustrated with stunning photography, the authors revisit designs that exemplify a highly refined set of proportional relationships and a level of detail and craftsmanship that remains unsurpassed today.

Travels With My Aunt
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Travels With My Aunt

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-10-02
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  • Publisher: Random House

'The only book I have ever written just for the fun of it' Graham Greene Greene proves a wonderful storyteller in this hilarious tale of the eccentricity of families and the pomposity of the middle class. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life. In Travels With My Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.

Greene & Greene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Greene & Greene

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Gibbs Smith

The art of the Greenes is here interpreted by Rand in 150 choice photographsecording the culmination of the Craftsman period and highlighting the artnd workmanship of the architects.

An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-09
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  • Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Known as "the bible" to Los Angeles architecture scholars and enthusiasts, Robert Winter and David Gebhard's groundbreaking guide to architecture in the greater Los Angeles area is updated and revised once again. From Art Deco to Beaux-Arts, Spanish Colonial to Mission Revival, Winter discusses an impressive variety of architectural styles in this popular guide that he co-authored with the late David Gebhard. New buildings and sites have been added, along with all new photography. Considered the most thorough L.A. architecture guide ever written, this new edition features the best of the past and present, from Charles and Henry Greene's Gamble House to Frank Gehry's Disney Philharmonic Hall. This was, and is again, a must-have guide to a diverse and architecturally rich area. Robert Winter is a recognized architectural historian who lives in Los Angeles, and has led architectural tours through the Los Angeles area since 1965. He is a professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.