"New bungalows can be made, new objects created; but if they are to be as valued and treasured as the originals we admire, they need to do more than copy the look: they need to interpret the original spirit and objectives for our time and place.
Matthew Bialecki, AIA
Could anyone have predicted in the early 1920's, when the original Arts & Crafts movement died out, that it would enjoy a revival that would start some fifty years later and last longer than the original movement? Arts and Crafts has evolved into a national style phenomena. It is now possible to live in Arts & Crafts-themed developments, work in Arts & Crafts - inspired office parks, eats in Arts & Crafts- styled restaurants and, of course, buy most any Arts & Crafts-style furniture at your local mall, big-box retailer, or web site. What happened to our obscure, little, cognoscente-only art movement that turned it into a multimedia merchandising juggernaut?
With the revival now well into its fourth decade, it is time to pause and critically ask what is fueling this great interest in a minor hundred-year-old art movement. Where is the bungalow revival going, and, more importantly, will it support a new architecture and a new way of living?
Excerpts from:
The New Bungalow
Essays by Matthew Bialecki, Christian Gladu, Jill Kessenich, Jim McCord, Su Bacon
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
P.O. Box 667
Layton, Utah 84041
1-800-835-4993
www.gibbs-smith.com
ISBN 10: 1-58685-042-3
The New Bungalow is a visual and intellectual feast for bungalow lovers like me! I purchased this book a while back, but looked at it with new eyes the other day! The photographs are inspiring for anyone thinking of building a new bungalow, or those of us who are working on remodeling the one we already have.
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