In the Greene & Greene Style: Projects and Details for the Woodworker

by Darrell Peart

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610352055
Publisher:	Linden Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	678,853
File size:	42 MB
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About the Author

Darrell Peart is a furniture maker and designer who has worked for commercial furniture companies and high-end custom shops. He is the author of "Greene & Greene: Design Elements for the Workshop" and has written articles for "American Woodworker," "Fine Woodworking," "Home Furniture," "Popular Woodworking," "Today's Woodworker," and "Woodwork." He lives in Renton, Washington.

Editorial Reviews

"With attention to detail and beautiful craftsmanship, the complex but lovely projects pay homage to the Greene & Greene style." —Karen Ellis, Library Journal

Step-by-step instructions and full-color photography on virutally every page walk the reader through how to add Greene & Greene details ... a superb guide for the woodworking artist seeking to hone their command of the craft. —Midwest Book Review

From the Publisher

The Greene brothers were early 20th-century architects who embraced furniture design inspired by the arts and crafts movement, along with some Asian influences also popular at the time. Master woodworker and author Peart, who described the brothers' stylistic and aesthetic development in Greene & Greene: Design Elements for the Workshop, here proposes nine projects based on the Greene & Greene aesthetic. While this volume includes cut lists of needed wood and some large line drawings to illustrate positioning and measurements, there is no handholding here: the book contains neither an index nor a list of required equipment. Most of the instruction is text, with a just a handful of photos showing technique. VERDICT With attention to detail and beautiful craftsmanship, the complex but lovely projects pay homage to the Greene & Greene style. However, because of the lack of basic instructions and project outlines, this title is recommended only to the very advanced and well-equipped woodworker.

Library Journal