Catalogue of Craftsman Furniture: January, 1909 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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I suppose it was because I began as a farmer boy and got my training for the work I was ultimately to do by doing as a matter of course the thing which had to be done, that I grew up with the habit of going at things in a natural way. The farmer boy is not given to theorizing about his work, but he soon learns to accept unquestioningly the fact that certain things have to be done and that the best way is for him to get right at it and get them done as soon as possible.
Therefore, when the idea came to me that the thing for me to do was to make better and simpler furniture, I naturally went at it in the most direct way. Having been for many years a furniture manufacturer, I was of course familiar with all the traditional styles, and in trying to make the kind of fur niture which I thought was needed in our homes, I had no idea of attempting to create a new style, but merely tried to make furniture which would be simple, durable, comfortable and fitted for the place it was to occupy and the work it had to do. It seemed to me that the only way to do this was to cut loose from all tradition and to do away with all needless ornamentation, re turning to plain principles of construction and applying them to the making of simple, strong, comfortable furniture, and I firmly believe that Craftsman furniture is the concrete expression of this idea.
Because of the sturdiness and beauty of our American white oak, I chose it as the best wood for the kind of furniture I had in mind, and the style,comfortably with any good simple scheme of interior decoration and furnish ing, it yet holds out a strong temptation to develop an entire scheme of furnish ing along the same lines. So we began in the metal shop to make electric lighting fixtures, fireplace fittings, trays, candlesticks and all manner of use ful household articles, designed on the same general principles as the furni ture and therefore just as essentially a part of one general scheme of furnish ing. The fabrics in their turn were made into curtains, portieres, pillows, scarfs, centerpieces and the like, and decorated with needlework and applique in strong simple designs and colorings which belonged to the oaken furniture as naturally as the leaves on a tree belong to the trunk. So, step by step, we grew naturally into the designing and arranging, first of rooms, and then of entire schemes of interior decoration.
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I suppose it was because I began as a farmer boy and got my training for the work I was ultimately to do by doing as a matter of course the thing which had to be done, that I grew up with the habit of going at things in a natural way. The farmer boy is not given to theorizing about his work, but he soon learns to accept unquestioningly the fact that certain things have to be done and that the best way is for him to get right at it and get them done as soon as possible.
Therefore, when the idea came to me that the thing for me to do was to make better and simpler furniture, I naturally went at it in the most direct way. Having been for many years a furniture manufacturer, I was of course familiar with all the traditional styles, and in trying to make the kind of fur niture which I thought was needed in our homes, I had no idea of attempting to create a new style, but merely tried to make furniture which would be simple, durable, comfortable and fitted for the place it was to occupy and the work it had to do. It seemed to me that the only way to do this was to cut loose from all tradition and to do away with all needless ornamentation, re turning to plain principles of construction and applying them to the making of simple, strong, comfortable furniture, and I firmly believe that Craftsman furniture is the concrete expression of this idea.
Because of the sturdiness and beauty of our American white oak, I chose it as the best wood for the kind of furniture I had in mind, and the style,comfortably with any good simple scheme of interior decoration and furnish ing, it yet holds out a strong temptation to develop an entire scheme of furnish ing along the same lines. So we began in the metal shop to make electric lighting fixtures, fireplace fittings, trays, candlesticks and all manner of use ful household articles, designed on the same general principles as the furni ture and therefore just as essentially a part of one general scheme of furnish ing. The fabrics in their turn were made into curtains, portieres, pillows, scarfs, centerpieces and the like, and decorated with needlework and applique in strong simple designs and colorings which belonged to the oaken furniture as naturally as the leaves on a tree belong to the trunk. So, step by step, we grew naturally into the designing and arranging, first of rooms, and then of entire schemes of interior decoration.
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