Innholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2016 i Arts & Crafts Homes

I GREW UP IN SUBURBAN HOUSES of no particular pedigree—housing, really, not architecture, certainly not art. My parents were buying a roof and just enough room, “a decent yard.” Maybe they would spring for new carpeting, or wallpaper for the dining room. Then, we lived there, with no further thought to interior design or collections. My first encounter with the old-house mystique was when, in first grade in New Jersey, I met Barbara and started going over to her house. It was a colonial-era Dutch house; Barbara’s grandmother, the town librarian, proudly told me it dated to 1693. (The center room did, the one that was always cold. Most of the house was ca. 1710, the kitchen wing built perhaps a hundred years later.) For me, it was love at…

THE GAMBLE HOUSE Building Paradise in California Essays by Robert Winter et al, photographs by Alexander Vertikoff. The Gamble House/USC School of Architecture, 2015. Hardcover, 199 pp., $55 This very personal book about the residence designed by architects Greene & Greene lets readers experience the emotional impact of the Gamble House. Essays dense with fact and familiarity rely on new scholarship based to some extent on a collection of archival materials, including writing by Clarence Gamble, the younger son who was 14 years old when the house was finished in 1908. House Director Edward R. Bosley and Curator Anne E. Mallek paint the picture of a family home, praising the Gambles for their patronage and collaboration with the Greenes. In describing the history of the Gambles’ gardens, house archivist Ann…

AMY & STEFAN SASICK Raw Urth Fort Collins, CO (866) 932-7510 rawurth.com WHEN THE TWO ARRIVED in Colorado about 10 years ago, they’d been working in landscape design for years—Amy in design and sales, Stefan as a master builder in multiple media. They were ready for a change in how they worked. Stefan and Amy Sasick had already named their new venture Raw Urth, staying in the landscaping vein, when Amy won a bid that included a new metal fence. With no skilled resource to turn to, the couple bought every book on welding they could find, and boned up on their rudimentary blacksmithing skills. The result was so successful, other innovative metalwork projects followed. “Our ignorance helped us do things differently, because we didn’t know they were ‘wrong’,” Amy…

DRAWN TO A RESCUE pp. 38-45 DESIGN CLEMENS PANTUSO ARCHITECTURE, Chagrin Falls, OH: clemenspantuso.com GENERAL CONTRACTOR RJM CONSTRUCTION, Middlefield, OH: (216) 870-3801 CABINETS ELK CREEK CONSTRUCTION, Thompson, OH: (440) 298-3815 WINDOWS MARVIN marvin.com HARDWARE/METAL CRAFTSMEN HARDWARE craftsmenhardware.com • JDRS CRAFTSMAN jdrscraftsman.com DECORATIVE OBJECTS ARTS & CRAFTS PRESS artsandcraftspress.com • EPHRAIM FAIENCE ephraimpottery.com • MOTAWI TILE motawi.com PAINT SHERWIN-WILLIAMS Preservation Palette, ‘Arts & Crafts’ sherwin-williams.com LIGHTING ARROYO CRAFTSMAN arroyo craftsman.com PUSH BUTTON SWITCHES (LR) CLASSIC ACCENTS classicaccents.net • SWITCH PLATES HOUSE OF ANTIQUE HARDWARE houseofantiquehardware.com PILLOWS/CURTAINS ANN WALLACE ann wallace.com • ARTS & CRAFTS PERIOD TEXTILES textilestudio.com RUGS THE PERSIAN CARPET persiancarpet.com • GUILDCRAFT shop.guildcraftcarpets.com FURNITURE STICKLEY stickley.com LAMP (kitchen) WILLIAM MORRIS STUDIO williammorrisstudio.com BEAMS OLDE WOOD oldewoodltd.com LIGHTING SCHOOLHOUSE ELECTRIC school houseelectric.com TILE PRATT & LARSON prattandlarson.com CEILING FAN PERIOD…

MAY 7–NOV. 6 Newcomb in Jersey An exhibition featuring about 30 examples of ceramics from Newcomb Pottery will be on view at the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms in Parsippany-Troy Hills. The collection was amassed over the past three decades by Barbara Fuldner, a great-granddaughter of Gustav Stickley, and her late husband, Henry Fuldner. The works will be on display in the dining room of the Log House, affording a rare opportunity to see Newcomb pottery in an authentic period Arts and Crafts setting. A related exhibition, featuring both ceramics and handicrafts from Newcomb College, will be on view at the Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, N.J. through July 10 (artmuseum.princeton.edu). Newcomb Pottery, active between about 1890 and 1940, grew out of the ceramics program at H. Sophie Newcomb…

New Home for Dirk’s Tools Fascinated by the coppersmithing of Dirk van Erp since adolescence, high-end antiques dealer Gus Bostrom received an unexpected opportunity four years ago, when van Erp’s grandson walked into his Berkeley shop. Bill van Erp invited Bostrom to see the family’s collection, which included all of the Arts & Crafts coppersmith’s original tools, workbenches, and display furniture. They had been kept together by Forrest L. Merrill, who’d been best friends with the elder van Erp’s son. Promising never to sell the tools and to use them for educational purposes, Bostrom struck a deal with Merrill and the van Erp family. The result is the nonprofit Dirk van Erp Foundation, established in 2014. “We have it as our mission to continue the legacy by educating younger craftsmen,”…

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THE RAMBLING English country house looked like it had been there since at least the 1920s (in fact, it was built in 1973). Set on five acres south of San Francisco, its original landscape plan had been laid out by renowned 20th-century landscape designer Thomas Church. Even after almost a half-century, it remained a testament to his genius. A long, winding entrance drive led to the house through groves of coastal live oak and past stretches of lawn, lending a stately presence. Already, a series of outdoor rooms afforded multiple viewpoints around the property, and broad terraces helped integrate the handsome stone Tudor into its surroundings. But by the time the current owners purchased the property some years ago, the gardens needed reinvigorating. Several of the once majestic live oaks,…