Arts and Crafts Furniture: Projects You Can Build for the Home by Blair Howard, ISBN 094193649X
The Craftsman-style furniture of Gustav Stickley has enjoyed an astonishing resurgence in popularity. Here Blair Howard presents fifteen projects, which represent not only the work of the most famous members of the movement, but also of such notable designers as Oscar Onken and Charles Limbert. Howard gives solid, concise information on how to choose lumber and obtain hardware, what tools to use, how to make the joints, and how to apply a finish. Each project contains step-by-step instructions, together with measured drawings and a bill of materials.
The Painted World: From Illumination to Abstraction
This lively, well-illustrated alternative history of painting reexamines the accepted ideas about fine art painting. It broadens the scope of painting from works on paper and canvas to include painted ceramics, stained glass. textiles. This history of Western painting is often reduced to the story of a tiny elite bunch of easel pictures, composed exclusively of old masters and avant-garde works. Three-dimensional objects, watercolors, miniatures, icons, and non-Western works, as well as modern paintings that are no longer perceived as "cutting edge," relate uneasily to this twin canon of old and modern masters. This new, richly illustrated account seeks to redress the balance by exploring the wider history of painting and including a broad range of painted works (often excluded as belonging to the realm of applied or decorative art) from stained glass to painted ceramics, furniture, textiles, and items of costume.
The Painted World: From Illumination to Abstraction 
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Ma Jiang and the Orange Ants by Barbara Ann Porte, ISBN 0531302415
Capturing and selling orange ants (thus named because they prey on insects that eat oranges) to the owners of orange groves has been the livelihood of the Ma family for many years. One day, though, the men in the family are taken away to serve in the emperor's army and no one is left to search for the ants in the high trees and wild bamboo; neither Jiang nor her mother knows how. Jiang's mother weaves to support them, but her meager earnings aren't enough to feed them or Bao, the baby of the family. When all seems lost, it is clever Jiang who finds the answer to their dilemma in Bao's sticky little fingers -- and gets the Mas back into the orange ant business.
Ma Jiang and the Orange Ants by Barbara Ann Porte, ISBN 0531302415
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Elleen Gray by Caroline Constant, ISBN 0714839051
Extremely private and unprepossessing, Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) has remained an elusive subject despite her lasting influence. Known primarily for her highly original furniture and interior design, Gray realized nine buildings in her lifetime and recorded more than forty-five architectural projects in her archive, although until recently several of her built projects were attributed solely to her collaborator, Romanian architect Jean Badovici.
After briefly studying art in London and Paris, Gray settled in Paris in 1907 and began designing sumptuous lacquer furniture, wool carpets, and draperies that reflected the sensual luxury of traditional French decorative arts. Beginning in the mid-1920s, and influenced by the Modern Movement, she turned to architecture. Her most renowned project, the villa E. 1027 on the coast of southern France, interprets Corbusian spatial principles and forms and has become an important example of Modernist architecture.
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Elleen Gray by Caroline Constant, ISBN 0714839051
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