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OUR MISSION is to offer expert advice and perspective for those building, renovating, or furnishing a home in the Arts and Crafts spirit. This quarterly covers contemporary practitioners as well as the historical antecedents of the continuing Arts and Crafts movement.

From the category archives:

Interiors

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Like this one in a Prairie house in St. Paul, Minnesota, today’s Arts & Crafts Revival kitchens are all about bringing fine materials and details into a room that has become the center of the home.

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A Look at the Best New Work of the Revival

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This contemporary bungalow in Flagstaff, Arizona, is a lovely and livable interpretation that relies on a repetitive arch and Native American motifs.

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Exterior Color Schemes for Foursquares, Bungalows, and Tudors

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The concept of “architectural colors” involves selecting, then placing, appropriate colors to reveal and enhance the logic of a building. Here are one expert’s suggestions for pleasing, historical schemes.

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Not Just for Kitchen & Bath

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Tile is used not just in the kitchen and bathroom but also for fireplace surrounds, entries—and floors! Tile is a durable flooring that is also artistic, both in its intrinsic body and color and because of the patterns in which it can be laid.

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The Floor is a Key to Style!

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Bungalow floors and more: The standard for formal rooms public and private, wood floors suggest durability even as they convey understated beauty and depth. Slate and limestone (and now stained concrete floors) create drama in a foyer or bath. For practical durability and virtually limitless color choices, you can’t beat a resilient floor in the kitchen or family room. For Arts & Crafts homes built at the end of the Victorian period and into the 20th century, all of these alternatives are appropriate.

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Ojai Time

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Long-time collectors of vintage American pottery and Navajo art found the right house for their collections. It was built as a winter haven for industrialist Edward Drummon LIbbey (as in Libbey Owens-Corning). Bill and Kathy Couturie restored it in the 1990s.

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Metalworks in the Design of the Arts & Crafts Home

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Brian Coleman describes the resurgence of fine work bringing us fireplace tools, stove hoods, garden gates, and metal art tiles.

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Arts & Crafts Metalwork

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The American movement is so heavily identified with wood: shingled bungalows, Mission oak, wainscots and beams. And as for the revival, interpretation of the woodwork of Greene and Greene is a movement all its own.

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3 Arts & Crafts Kitchens

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Fabulous revival kitchens appeared in three different features in our Fall 2009 issue of Arts& Crafts Homes. Here’s a look at these projects.

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This is True Arts and Crafts

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Patricia Poore, Editor of Arts and Crafts Homes Magazine

It’s been years since I went antiquing in Essex. That’s the old ship-building town next to Gloucester, which is incidentally famous for a cluster of antiques stores…

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Allow Me Hyperbole…

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Patricia Poore, Editor of Arts and Crafts Homes Magazine

Television on, one night last week I fell asleep early, only to wake up in the impossible humidity of two a.m. Very quietly, the TV was telling me about the secrets of the Parthenon.

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From the Mind of Gustav Stickley

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From the Mind of Gustav Stickley

At Crab Tree Farm, interiors like those in the Ellis Bungalow are filled with treasures, and designed based on suggestions from Stickley’s The Craftsman magazine.

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Inside a Colonial Revival!

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This gambrel-roofed brick Georgian house in New Hampshire was built in 1901.

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Doors Closed and Opened

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For years—decades, in fact—I operated as an independent publisher, because no one told me how crazy that was…

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Happy 100th, Gamble House!

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Pasadena Heritage Craftsman Weekend, October 17th–19th, join in celebrating the centennial of the Gamble House, an Arts & Crafts icon by Charles and Henry Greene.

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Defining the Arts & Crafts Movement

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The American version of Arts & Crafts was simpler than the European movements, emphasizing wood tones and earthy materials and colors.

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