THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY: DECORATING WITH ARTS & CRAFTS

THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY: DECORATING WITH ARTS & CRAFTS The best-selling Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts & Crafts details everything necessary for creating Arts & Crafts interiors, from wall coverings to furnishings, tiles, stenciling, accessories, moldings, and floor coverings. More than 140 stunning photos showcase the Arts & Crafts movement from its humble beginnings to its recent & well-deserved surge in popularity.The furniture & architectural designs of the Arts & Crafts movement were created not to dominate nature, but to coexist with it. Earth-tone colors, natural motifs and building materials, and intricate & decorative fireplaces all hearkened back to simpler times. That same yearning for elegant simplicity continues to propel a modern revival of the Arts & Crafts movement, and appeals to modern needs for both quality and understated beauty. Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts & Crafts will guid even an Arts & Crafts novice to a beautifully accented bungalow, cabin, or family home.ABOUT THE AUTHORS:Bruce Smith & Yoshiko Yamamoto write on the Arts & Crafts movement, bungalows, crafts, and food. Smith was the editor of American Bungalow News and associate editor of American Bungalow magazine. Yamamoto is a student of both life and history. Smith & Yamamoto are co-owners of the Arts and Crafts Press in Port Orchard, Washington, and publishers of The Tabby: A Chronicle of the Arts and Crafts Movement. ISBN: 1-58685-431-3 publish date: 04/14/2004