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House

Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547526172
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book House written by Tracy Kidder and published by HMH. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author brings “clarity, intelligence and grace” to the tale of building a home in this New York Times Bestseller (The New York Times Book Review). It’s 1983 and Jonathan and Judith Souweine are ready to build their forever home on a four-acre lot just outside of Amherst, Massachusetts. A lawyer and a psychologist, neither has much experience with the process. In this New York Times bestseller, Tracy Kidder leads readers through the grand adventure of building the American dream. In his portrayal, constructing a staircase or applying a coat of paint becomes a riveting tale of conflicting wills, the strength and strain of relationships, and pride in craftsmanship. With drama, sensitivity, and insight, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of the New Machine takes us from blueprints to moving day. In the process, he sheds new light on objects usually taken for granted and creates a vivid cast of characters you will not soon forget. “Tracy Kidder has done it again. . . . What might seem like ordinary work takes on an extraordinary, unpredictable life of its own. The subject is fascinating, the book a remarkable piece of craftsmanship in itself.” —Chicago Tribune Book World “Kidder makes us feel with a splendid intensity the complex web of relationships and emotions that inevitably comes into play in the act of bringing a work of architecture to fruition.” —The New York Times Book Review

The Craftsman

Author : Richard Sennett
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141919418
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Craftsman written by Richard Sennett and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book, a philosophically-minded enquiry into practical activity of many different kinds past and present, is about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work. Sennett suggests, instead, that there is a craftsman in every human being, which can sometimes be enormously motivating and inspiring - and can also in other circumstances make individuals obsessive and frustrated. The Craftsman shows how history has drawn fault-lines between craftsman and artist, maker and user, technique and expression, practice and theory, and that individuals' pride in their work, as well as modern society in general, suffers from these historical divisions. But the past lives of crafts and craftsmen show us ways of working (using tools, acquiring skills, thinking about materials) which provide rewarding alternative ways for people to utilise their talents. We need to recognise this if motivations are to be understood and lives made as fulfilling as possible.

Arts & Crafts

Author : Michael Robinson
Publisher : Flame Tree Illustrated
ISBN 13 : 9781786647658
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Arts & Crafts written by Michael Robinson and published by Flame Tree Illustrated. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arts & Crafts is a celebration of the design movement that started in Britain and spread around the world at the end of the nineteenth century. Depicting both well-known and unusual art and artifacts from this most fascinating of eras, this book provides a wealth of information about the lives and times of the designers, architects and artists who created them.

Metalwork for Craftsmen

Author : Emil F. Kronquist
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486156109
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Metalwork for Craftsmen written by Emil F. Kronquist and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by a master craftsman who has devoted much of his life to teaching, is an exceptionally useful handbook in the techniques of sheet metalcraft. Presenting easy-to-follow and complete instructions on pages opposite to carefully executed drawings and diagrams, he makes it possible for anyone to learn the basics of this art form and to fashion objects which are at once beautiful and useful, and which display the individual expressiveness of the maker. Beginning with fundamentals, the author lists and pictures all of the necessary tools and carefully explains basic techniques for cutting stock, annealing and heating, pickling, shallow hollowing, raising, planishing, bending and shaping, leveling, soldering and welding, making molds, pattern making, and all of the steps and processes in the fine art of chasing. There follows a series of specific projects for making candlesticks, coasters, fluted platters and bowls, beakers, pitchers, serving trays, lamps, and a host of other articles in a wide variety of designs. A selection of thumbnail sketches for further exploration is included, and complete instructions are given for finishing and oxidation. The compact and graphic method of presentation makes this an extremely handy book, and the projects contained in it will engage the accomplished craftsman as well as the amateur. The approach is consistently from the craftworker's point of view, and the description of workshop methods are clear and direct and result from the author's lifelong experience in actual work and in instruction.

Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, Revised & Expanded Second Edition

Author : Robert W. Lang
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607659174
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Great Book of Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture, Revised & Expanded Second Edition written by Robert W. Lang and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing complete shop drawings for 61 classic Stickley furniture pieces, master cabinetmaker Robert W. Lang measured original Craftsman antiques to create these detailed plans. With full perspective views, elevations, sections, details, and cutting lists for each Shaker furniture project, this new paperback collection showcases the heart of the Craftsman aesthetic.

In the Arts and Crafts Style

Author : Barbara Mayer
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811802027
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book In the Arts and Crafts Style written by Barbara Mayer and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter of this book examines a different facet of this aesthetic, beginning with its European origins and proceeding to American classics, including California's Mission style. The book highlights the work of such influential designers as Gustav Stickley, L & J.G. Stickley, Charles Voysey, Greene & Greene, George Ohr, Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Charles Rohlfs, among others, and features Arts and Crafts standards, such as the Morris chair, the Stickley settle, the Tiffany lamp, and the Fulper bowl, all displayed in a variety of contemporary interiors.

Great Works of Craftsmen

Author : Raymond Lister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Great Works of Craftsmen written by Raymond Lister and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acts of Creation

Author : Walt Harrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989524162
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Creation written by Walt Harrington and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of profiles about great American craftsmen is itself the handiwork of a great American craftsman." --David Grogan, " This Old House Magazine" For"Acts of Creation," award-winning journalist Walt Harrington travels America searching for the magical nexus of craft, talent, and mastery that gives birth to a functional work of art-and leaves its maker with a sense of satisfaction and achievement known well to fine craftsmen across the ages. A builder of monumental fireplaces in Maine. A cabinet maker in Maryland. A millwright in Virginia. A locksmith and a house framer in Ohio. A hardwood floor man in Indiana. A blacksmith in Illinois. A stone carver in California. Not one of the fourteen craftsmen and woman profiled believes he or she is working only to build a house, to renovate a watermill, to cast a plaster medallion. Each imbues their work with grander purpose-Michael Seward wants the people who buy his furniture to experience an emotional connection; Chuck Crispin wants his clients' lives to be evoked in his floor designs; Charles Keller wants the highly educated world to appreciate the complicated genius of not only fine blacksmithing but all fine craftsmen. The profiles in "Acts of Creation"help to reclaim the place of craftsmanship in a consumerist era that places higher value on profit and branding than it does on dedicated excellence. These craftsmen offer not only lessons about craftsmanship, but also about life. "Acts of Creation is a lovely collection of literary journalism, written by a master of the form. Walt Harrington's gracefully nuanced prose, full of feeling and finely observed detail, wonderfully conveys the world of craftsmen in all its artful integrity. In the grand tradition of Tracy Kidder, John McPhee and Joseph Mitchell, Harrington offers us a fascinating and enduring homage to men at work." --Barry Siegel; Pulitzer Prize winner; director of the Literary Journalism Program, University of California, Irvine "Acts of Creation is an example of what happens when a top-notch writer, laboring in solitude with purity of purpose, puts the right words in the right order." --Madeleine Blais, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family "A compelling tribute to Americans who work with their hands and hearts." --Pete Earley, author, "Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness."

The Craftsman

Author : Sharon Bolton
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250300045
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Craftsman written by Sharon Bolton and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers. Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive. Florence was able to solve the mystery and get a confession out of Larry before more children were murdered, and he spent the rest of his life in prison. But now, decades later, he's dead, and events from the past start to repeat themselves. Is someone copying the original murders? Or did she get it wrong all those years ago? When her own son goes missing under similar circumstances, the case not only gets reopened... it gets personal. In master of suspense Sharon Bolton's latest thriller, readers will find a page-turner to confirm their deepest fears and the only protagonist who can face them.

Colonial Craftsmen

Author :
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862281
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Craftsmen written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-07-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the shops, working methods, and products of the different types of tradesmen and craftsmen who shaped the early American economy.

The New Jumbo Book of Easy Crafts

Author : Judy Ann Sadler
Publisher : Kids Can Press
ISBN 13 : 9781554532391
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book The New Jumbo Book of Easy Crafts written by Judy Ann Sadler and published by Kids Can Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Got a clothespin? Turn it into a dragonfly. Got a walnut? Turn it into a sailboat. Kids will find these plus hundreds more easy crafts, including animals, nature crafts, games, gifts, toys and works of art in the revised, updated and redesigned New Jumbo Book of Easy Crafts. We've added 20 new crafts, including a wind sock to check the weather, a new costume for dress-up and a wagon train to store craft materials and toys. We've also revitalized the cover and interior with fresh designs, while illustrator Caroline Price has added new illustrations, revisited her original art and colorized it. You'll also find an updated introduction and materials section. The book divides crafts into four themed sections: Imagine and Create, Wear and Use, Make and Play and Decorate and Celebrate, making it easy for kids, parents and teachers to find the perfect craft for a special day, a special person or just for fun.

Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture

Author :
Publisher : Cambium
ISBN 13 : 9781892836120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Shop Drawings for Craftsman Furniture written by and published by Cambium. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craftsman, Art & Crafts, Mission--27 examples of the oak furniture designed by Gustave Stickley and his associates early in the 20th century. These drawings have been checked against original Stickley catalogs and antiques. Each project includes a perspective view along with elevations, sections, details, measurements and a cutting list.

Arts and Crafts Book Covers

Author : Malcolm Haslam
Publisher : Richard Dennie Publication
ISBN 13 : 9780955374180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Arts and Crafts Book Covers written by Malcolm Haslam and published by Richard Dennie Publication. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the age of the paper book jacket, publishers issued their books in cloth-covered boards, which were stamped with designs in golf leaf and color. From around 1860, artists of the Arts and Crafts movement supplied many of the best designs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Walter Crane led the way, and they were followed in the 1890s by Laurence Housman, Charles Ricketts and Selwyn Image, among others. Prominent Arts and Crafts architects, such as Philip Webb and C.F.A. Voysey, also designed book covers. Malcolm Haslam explores this uncharted territory, investigating not only the designs and designers, but the publishers and binders as well. He introduces some artists, little known today, whose designs filled the bookshops and bookshelves of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, and he shows how designers in Europe and America were influenced by British book covers decorated in the Arts and Crafts style. Ninety-nine of the best covers are illustrated and described, and details are given of over fifty Arts and Crafts designers who worked in commercial book production, and their marks and monograms are shown.

Artists, Craftsmen, and Technocrats

Author : Patricia C. Pitcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artists, Craftsmen, and Technocrats written by Patricia C. Pitcher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'auteure aborde la question du leadership, de l'initiative du gestionnaire dans l'entreprise et dans les services publics. Elle montre, par l'analyse fouillée et lucide d'une grande institution bancaire, comment les technocrates ont détruit ce qu'avaient bâti les artistes et préservé les artisans. Nous devons comprendre ces différents styles de gestion et l'effet qu'ils peuvent exercer sur l'entreprise (Henry Mintzberg).

The Book of Craftsmen

Author : Marjory Bruce
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781436694810
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Craftsmen written by Marjory Bruce and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Stories of Great Craftsmen

Author : Sydney Haywood Glenister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Great Craftsmen written by Sydney Haywood Glenister and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Goldsmith of Florence

Author : Katharine Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goldsmith of Florence written by Katharine Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of great craftsmen touching on those practising during the time of the knights, during the great days of Florence, and during the American Revolution and now.