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By Darrell Peart

ISBN-10: 0941936961

ISBN-13: 9780941936965

Thought of one of the optimum achievements of the yank arts and crafts circulation, Greene & Greene furnishings used to be custom-built for particular inside areas, and lots of of the items nonetheless stay of their unique destinations. This handbook, written by way of a nationally well-known furnishings maker, offers intermediate and complex woodworkers with good illustrated, step by step directions for traditional Greene & Greene information, together with ebony plugs, cloud lifts, leg indents, brackets, and pulls. A dialogue of the layout philosophy of the interval accompanies how-to chapters, and pictures of latest Greene-inspired furnishings supply rules for initiatives. Biographical sketches are integrated for Charles and Henry Greene, Peter and John corridor (who equipped lots of the furniture), and competing furnishings maker Gustav Stickley.

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In image 10, page 17, the single-looped bracket used on the Tichenor chairs (circa 1905) is much plumper. Chapter 9 Blacker Brackets The bracket detail was presumably an Asian influence inspired by the low swooping rafters found in Japanese temple construction. Looking back to the 1902 James Culbertson House, cwo variations of the bracket detail are found. Within the wooden trim work on the wall above the fireplace is a single loop bracket (65); and in the upper corners of the window wrap in the dining room there are double-loop brackets (64).

With a 1/4 inch x 7/8 inch dowel joining holes numbered 5 and 8, lightly clamp and glue the inside loop in place. Using a number 8 x 1­ 1/2 inches woodscrew, secure the inside loop to the rail (87). Remove the clamp and dry-fit the outside loop in place to confirm that there are no visible gaps between the two loops. As before, with a 114 inch x 7/8 inch dowel joining holes num­ bered 6 and 7, lightly glue and clamp the outside loop in place and attach with a 8 x 1-112 inch screw (88). Remove the clamp and fill the twO visible 3/8-inch holes with face­ grain plugs (89).

Frequenrly rhis is achieved by rapering rhe leg as ir nears rhe floor, rhen rhe very borrom of rhe leg will gain mass again, cre­ aring a visual anchor ro rhe design as a whole. Mosr of rhe classic furnirure makers had rheir own devices for rhis, and examples can be seen as far back as ancienr Egypr. Probably rhe besr-known use of rhis mech­ anism is rhe claw and ball foor , which was used exrensively by Thomas Chippendale. In rhe Blacker House, Charles was appar­ enrly experimenring wirh rwo differenr ways ro rrear rhe lower leg.

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