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Bungalow Colors: Exteriors by Robert Schweitzer click to enlarge

Bungalow Colors: Exteriors

Robert Schweitzer
Some of us may only daydream about restoring an Arts and Crafts bungalow, while for others the dream is a reality. For anyone interested in the color sensibility of the Arts and Crafts period in American design history, this book is full of information and illustrations.

Author Robert Schweitzer has documented many contemporary restorations and inludes alternative color schemes.

192 pgs, 10x10, color illus, softcover
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Jane Powell,Linda Svendsen  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here's is an interesting and through examination of the bungalow, a classic American house style by an expert on this architectural style.In... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide: Includes All United States and International Sites (Frank Lloyd Wright)  NEW!

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Usually ships in 24 hours For Wright fans who want a comprehensive index of all his buildings in the US and worldwide, here's an excellent reference. Written... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Shop Drawings for Craftsman Inlays & Hardware: Original Designs by Gustav Stickley and Harvey Ellis (Shop Drawings series)  NEW!

Robert W. Lang  
Usually ships in 24 hours From Robert Lang, author of the popular Shop Drawings Series, comes this guide to adding elegant inlays and sturdy, functional hinges to... [read more]

$19.95
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book cover unavailable Arts & Crafts Design

Timothy L. Hansen,William Harrison Varnum  
Usually ships in 24 hours In this reprint of the 1916 edition, William Varnum reveals the universal rules of good art and sound design. The term "industrial"... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Arts & Crafts Furniture: Projects You Can Build for the Home (Woodworker's Library (Fresno, Calif.).)

Blair Howard  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here are step-by-step instructions for 15 classic projects by leading Arts & Crafts designers, Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Charles Limbert. Detailed... [read more]

$21.95
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book cover unavailable Arts and Crafts Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary

Kevin P. Rodel,Jonathan Binzen  
Usually ships in 24 hours This book examines the influences that gave rise to the Arts & Crafts movement in furniture design. An Arts & Crafts home... [read more]

$45.00
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book cover unavailable Bungalows: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling, and Building New (Updating Classic America)

M. Caren Connolly,Louis Wasserman,Caren Connolly  
Usually ships in 24 hours First in a new series under the general title Updating Classic America, Bungalows shows how to remodel and renovate these classic Arts... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Craft Furniture: The Legacy of the Human Hand (Schiffer Design Book)

Dennis Blankemeyer  
Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks Here's a beautiful and inspiring volume. This book presents the lives and work of outstanding American furniture makers of the 20th &... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Craftsman Homes: More than 40 Plans for Building Classic Arts & Crafts-Style Cottages, Cabins, and Bungalows

Gustav Stickley  
Usually ships in 24 hours Stickley's own compilation of the best of his designs, contemporary designers and remodelers will find more than 40 plans for building classic... [read more]

$19.95
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book cover unavailable Greene and Greene: Masterworks

Bruce Smith,Alexander Vertikoff  
Usually ships in 24 hours A breathtaking tour of 25 exquisite Greene & Greene houses. Beautiful color photos show overall views and details of furniture, interiors, and... [read more]

$40.00
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book cover unavailable Hints on Household Taste: The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration

Charles L. Eastlake  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here is insight into the rise of the Arts & Crafts movement, in which Eastlake was a precursor. Especially helpful to anyone... [read more]

$12.95
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book cover unavailable In the Arts and Crafts Style

Barbara Mayer,Rob Gray,Elaine Hirschl Ellis  
Usually ships in 24 hours Lush color photos show Arts & Crafts furniture and accessories in contemporary interiors. Includes discussion of the European origins of this distinctly... [read more]

$40.00
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book cover unavailable Making Authentic Craftsman Furniture: Instructions and Plans for 62 Projects (Dover Books on Woodworking & Carving)

Gustav Stickley  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here are 62 simple, straightforward projects reprinted from Gustav Stickley's monthly magazine, "The Craftsman" (1901-1916). Each piece features Stickley's drawings and plans.... [read more]

$10.95
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book cover unavailable Mission Furniture : How to Make It

Henry Haven Windsor  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here are 98 Mission style projects, a vernacular form of Stickley Craftsman style, from the early 1900s. Each project features accurate measured... [read more]

$12.95
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book cover unavailable More Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture: 30 Stickley Designs for Every Room in the Home (Shop Drawings series)

Robert W. Lang,Robert W. Lang  
Usually ships in 24 hours Robert W. Lang presents 30 more measured drawings for pieces of Stickley Craftsman furniture. These classics are timeless and as popular today... [read more]

$22.95
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book cover unavailable Principles of Victorian Decorative Design

Christopher Dresser  
Usually ships in 24 hours Written by influential commercial and industrial designer of the 19th century Christopher Dresser, this book is a comprehensive work on the aesthetics... [read more]

$12.95
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book cover unavailable Roberts' Illustrated Millwork Catalog: A Sourcebook of Turn-of-the-Century Architectural Woodwork (Dover Books on Architecture)

Roberts & Co.  
Usually ships in 24 hours A wide assortment of finely crafted doors, gable finishes, mouldings, parquet floors, paneled wainscoting, much more are presented in this useful text.TABLE... [read more]

$18.95
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book cover unavailable Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture: 27 Stickley Designs for Every Room in the Home (Shop Drawings for)

Robert W. Lang  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here, at last, are accurate shop drawings for 27 pieces of Stickley Craftsman furniture. Other books reproduce the drawings that Stickley published,... [read more]

$22.95
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book cover unavailable Shop Drawings for Craftsman Interiors: Cabinets, Moldings & Built-Ins for Every Room in the Home (Shop Drawings series)

Robert W. Lang  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here are complete working drawings for Craftsman interiors developed from original Stickley designs. Includes moldings and trim, doors and windows, built-in china... [read more]

$24.95
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book cover unavailable Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs

Gustav Stickley,L. & J. G. Stickley  
Usually ships in 24 hours Two catalogues, one of Gustav Stickley's furniture, and the other of furniture designed by the Stickley brothers. Looking at these authentic designs... [read more]

$12.95
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book cover unavailable Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition

David Cathers,Alexander Vertikoff  
Usually ships in 24 hours No one played a more influential role in the triumph of the American Arts & Crafts movement than Gustav Stickley, furniture maker... [read more]

$40.00
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book cover unavailable The 1912 and 1915 Gustav Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs

Gustav Stickley  
Usually ships in 24 hours This volume brings back into print two original Craftsman catalogs illustrating and describing a broad range of Stickley's furniture designs. Included are... [read more]

$11.95
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book cover unavailable The Arts & Crafts Cabin

Robbin Obomsawin,Roger Wade  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here's a book about the melding of log cabin construction (with a few timber frame houseS included,) and the Arts and Crafts... [read more]

$39.95
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book cover unavailable The Furniture of Gustav Stickley: History, Techniques, and Projects

Joseph J. Bavaro,Thomas L. Mossman,Joseph J. Baravro  
Usually ships in 24 hours Stickley furniture is the signature of the Craftsman style in America. This historical account presents a photo gallery of authentic Craftsman pieces,... [read more]

$21.95
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Brooks Manufacturing Co.  
Usually ships in 24 hours Photographs and detailed descriptions with dimensioned drawings of more than 150 furniture designs from the Arts and Crafts movement manufactured in quarter... [read more]

$9.95
book cover unavailable Authentic Arts & Crafts Furniture Projects


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book cover unavailable Classic Arts & Crafts Furniture You Can Build

Andy Schultz   Detailed step-by-step instructions for 20 pieces put Arts & Craft style furniture at your fingertips. In keeping with classic tradition, the pieces... [read more]

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Usually ships in 24 hours Like their brother Gustav's designs, those of L. and J.G. Stickley include many first-rate examples of American Arts and Crafts style. This... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Good Citizens Furniture: The Arts and Crafts Collection at Cheltenham

Annette Carruthers,Mary Creensted,Annette Carruther,Mary Greensted,Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum  
Usually ships in 24 hours The Cheltenham Museum in England houses the best collection of Arts-and-Crafts furniture by William Morris, his circle, and his successors. This book,... [read more]

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Mary Ann Smith   A readable and informative study, this book illuminates the totality of Stickley's achievement, particularly in architecture. The focus is on Craftsman houses,... [read more]

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Come-Packt Furniture Co.  
Usually ships in 24 hours A comprehensive home furnishings catalog from the height of the popularity of Mission design, reprinted from a rare original, illustrating and describing... [read more]

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Elbert Hubbard  
Usually ships in 24 hours Here's a good source of designs for turning, carving, pyrography, metalwork, and surface design. William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement... [read more]

$12.95
book cover unavailable Roycroft Furniture Catalog, 1906

The Roycrofters  
Usually ships in 24 hours This unabridged reprint of a rare Roycroft furniture catalog contains over 140 drawings and photos depicting a wide vareity of Arts and... [read more]

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