California Mission Arts Crafts Movement Furniture Pottery Architecture / Book

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Beautifully illustrated with over 200 color and black-and-white photographs, this early book provides a pictorial survey of the arts and crafts movement in California.  Supplemented by extremely rich narrative, this comprehensive book reviews the history of this movement, its makers, and wares.
THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN CALIFORNIA  LIVING THE GOOD LIFE
by Kenneth R. Trapp, Abbeville Press Publishers, N.Y., 1993 is a companion volume to an exhibition held at the Oakland Museum February 27-August 15, 1993.  It traveled to the Smithsonian and the Cincinnati Art Museum as well.
“’The best work in Arts and Crafts in America is already being produced on the Pacific Coast,’ proclaimed the English designer, Charles R. Ashbee during a visit to the Bay Area in 1909.  The accuracy of his praise is made vividly clear by this handsome publication, which celebrates the beauty, skill, variety, and exuberance of the Arts and Crafts objects and architecture created in California during a brief but intensely prolific period between about 1895 and 1930.  Inspired by the state’s spectacular scenery, by its distinctive flora and fauna, and by its romantic past, the artists and artisans of California produced a unique variant of the Arts and Crafts movement….”
Enlightening and entertaining essays by eight astute scholars present new information and insights about Arts and Crafts architecture and urban planning, garden design, interiors and resorts, tiles, pottery, metalwork, and furniture.  Thoughtful introductory and closing essays analyze the movement and its visual and conceptual legacies in the context of that beguilingly idealistic era.  Concluding the book are information-rich endnotes and a carefully focused bibliography, plus extensive artists’ biographies and company histories that will be of particular interest to both scholars and collectors.”  Makers include Greene and Greene, Malibu Potteries, Roblin Art Pottery, Arequipa Pottery, Grand Feu Pottery, Rhead Pottery, Redlands Pottery, California Faience, Robertson Pottery, Batchelder, Digby S. Brooks, Dirk Van Erp, Clemens Friedell, William Templeton Johnson, and more.  This is a beautiful book and will afford many hours of enjoyment as the reader is offered an “armchair tour” of a remarkable art exhibit.
Oversized 10.4” x 11.3” hardback book with dust cover in very good condition.  328  pages.
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