Greene & Greene Furniture: Poems of Wood & Light

Books about early twentieth century California architects Greene & Greene fall into two basic categories: Serious scholarship with beautiful.
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Serious scholarship with beautiful photographs and no scholarship with beautiful photographs.

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In many cases their work is simply too beautiful to require the reading of text to explain it and looking at the pictures is eminently satisfying. The lifetime oeuvre of buildings and furniture by the highly gifted brothers Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene is well documented in both the popular and academic architectural press. Their extant works are extensively catalogued, exemplary in their execution and quite simply gorgeous.

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Makinson and Edward R. The work inspires and enchants me, as a practicing architect not only for the beauty of its design, but the exceptional craft of its execution.


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Mathias further looks into unique elements of their work as they were applied to specific projects, the result a useful compendium for seeing and understanding just how exceptional the work is. Here the beautiful dark wood is contrasted with the lighter body of the drawer and secured to the top with brass pins. Often, the design for this furniture was included as one of the sheets of drawings that were part of the documents created for the construction of the house.

Within these drawing sets are plans, elevations and other details, all drawn in a competent, but hardly descriptive way. At best these drawings are often schematic, it would be impossible to build the furniture let alone the houses themselves to the level of craft and detail present in the final object just by looking at the drawings.

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