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"Industrial Arts Design" by William H. Varnum is a practical guide for designing in wood, clay, base, and precious metals. It is intended for individual student use in high schools, normal schools, and colleges and as a reference book for elementary school teachers. Its more complex problems are intended as definite help to the industrial art designer or craftsman. The wood problems are treated with special reference to their adaptability to bench and cabinet work. The book has been written to fill a decided demand for a textbook that shall, without loss of time, directly apply well-recognized principles of general design to specific materials and problems encountered in the Industrial Arts.
Originally published in 1916 when the Arts & Crafts movement was in its heyday, this is a virtual textbook of materials, color, techniques, and designs. Arts & Crafts Design is a practical guide to the creation of high-quality, high-style furnishings through the industrial arts. "In this relativistic age in which de gustilrie non disputandum est (it is undisputed that each person has their own sense of taste), it is refreshing to look back to the early twentieth century when at least a few people were certain that there are universal rules for good art and also that they had themselves mastered these precepts and could pass them on to a society that loved commonly held values. William H. Var...