How Can An Appropriate Fabric be selected to reupholster a family heirloom chair, make new draperies for a 100-year-old house or restore the furnishings of an entire house to their original appearance? Revised and expanded, Fabrics for Historic Buildings explains how to choose, buy and install the correct fabrics for historic interiors. Included is a unique catalog of more than 600 fabric types and patterns and a new chapter on 20th-century fabrics. "Gives practical, step-by-step advice on selecting and ordering appropriate fabrics for restoration projects." Interior Design "This book offers practical advice for anyone decorating a historic or an old home who wants to recreate a period look and is confused when it comes to selecting appropriate fabrics for the curtains and upholstery." Country Home

Fabrics for Historic Buildings: A Guide to Selecting Reproduction Fabrics. Revised Edition

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Nylander, Jane C.

Crafts & Hobbies

Preservation Pr

"It's a complex fate, being an American." — Henry James 
A Complex Fate offers the first full-length look at Gustav Stickley, who rose from unknown cabinetmaker to the most vocal spokesman in America for the early twentieth-century aesthetic revolution that became known as the Craftsman Movement. In the face of the Modern Age, Stickley espoused the values of the medieval craftsman, influencing the design of furniture, pottery, metalwork, jewelry, bookbinding, leatherwork, and architecture. Author Barry Sanders chronicles the progress of Stickley's wide-ranging career, from his rise to fame and wealth to his ultimate financial ruin. Rare photographs and renderings of Stickley's designs enhance this compelling portrait of the man and his work. It was a time of enormous upheaval in America. Sweeping and convulsive changes spilled into the new century in every conceivable shape: electric lights, overhead railways, airplanes, automobiles, the Ashcan school of painting, jazz, and Henry James. Yet, in the middle of this time of intense innovation, a movement dedicated to simple living began to take shape. It became known as the Craftsman Movement, and an unknown cabinetmaker, Gustav Stickley, became its most vocal spokesman, and in many ways, its embodiment. A Complex Fate chronicles Stickley's life and career—a career marked by the same contradictions that characterized America's transition from a largely rural society to a modern, technological one. He regarded himself as a modern, yet espoused a philosophy that celebrated simplicity, community, and skilled manual work. His furniture itself, at first glance simple, stark, and hand-built, was nevertheless mass-produced and regarded as thoroughly modern by a public eager to buy it. In this, the first full-length profile of Stickley, we follow his rise to staggering wealth, wide popularity, and enormous influence on the design of furniture, pottery, metalwork, jewelry, book-binding, leatherwork, and architecture. We see the power of his charisma and uncommon ego, his plans for rural crafts schools, and his messianic drive to spread the message of artisanship, community, and honest, unalienated labor. We watch, too, as his ambitions and contradictions finally become overwhelming, leaving him a bankrupt and broken man. A Complex Fate is the robust portrait of a man whose talent, nerve, and savvy have left a lasting imprint on design in America, and whose life offers us a window on the roiling tumult of a society on the brink of a new age.

A Complex Fate: Gustav Stickley and the Craftsman Movement

Arts & Photography

Sanders, Barry

Architecture

Book by National Trust for Historic Preservation

Old and New Architecture: Design Relationship

National Trust for Historic Preservation

America's Country Schools

Education & Teaching

Gulliford, Andrew

Schools & Teaching

Book by Weitzman, David, Leccese, Michael

Industrial Eye: Photographs by Jet Lowe

Weitzman, David

Leccese, Michael

Photography & Video

When should I repoint an old brick wall? Do I need to clean my brick? What can be done to keep out moisture? Hundreds of questions such as these are answered in this authoritative, lavishly illustrated handbook. Using straightforward advice and enlightening facts, the author explains how to care for and repair old brick and stone structures.

Masonry: How to Care for Old and Historic Brick and Stone (Respectful rehabilitation)

London, Mark

Home Improvement & Design

Among the 330 feats of engineering genius documented here are bridges found all over the United States, from Brooklyn to the Golden Gate and landmark dams such as the Hoover, Grand Coulee, Norris and Shasta. The introduction presents an overview of bridge and dam history, while special sections outline preservation issues and demonstrate the significance of these structures in America's history.

Great American Bridges and Dams (Great American places series)

Donald Jackson

Have you ever felt squashed? Squeezed? Pulled? Tugged? If so, then you know what it feels like to be a building! Here, with playful drawings and humorous text, award-winning author Forrest Wilson uses human figures (plus some dogs and rams) to show that architecture and people have more in common than you might have believed. This book will delight everyone who is fascinated with the buildings around us.

What It Feels Like to Be a Building (Landmark Reprint Series)

Forrest Wilson

Judith Kitchen demystifies the questions surrounding what is historically significant in older homes, what is an appropriate rehabilitation, and when restoration is appropriate. She also includes down-to-earth discussion about the philosophy behind preservation with handy thumbnail descriptions of architectural styles that have been popular in the U.S.

Caring for Your Old House: A Guide for Owners and Residents (Respectful rehabilitation)

Kitchen, Judith L.

Book is full of great hotel recipes!

Recipes from Historic Hotels of America

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Wolinski, David B.

Guiry, Suzanne P.

Regional & International

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