Learn how to couple inspired design with flawless execution to create
your own striking, original furniture.
In his latest book, The Artisan Furnituremaker, long-time
furnituremaker Darrell Peart--author of Greene & Greene: Design
Elements for the Workshop and In the Greene & Greene Style--brings
all his experience to bear in providing a masterclass on the three
fundamental requirements for success in the field of custom furniture
design: creativity, design, and workmanship. The book offers a detailed
examination of the design and production methods of the Greene brothers,
legendary furnituremakers and architects of the Arts and Crafts
Movement, and illuminates how the brothers achieved such brilliance in
their designs, and how they collaborated so successfully with the
craftsmen who brought their designs to life.
The Artisan Furnituremaker goes on to show how you can combine all
three elements-- creativity, design, and workmanship--in your own
workshop and produce high quality, distinctively original pieces of your
own. Peart covers how creativity is essential for fulfilling the desires
of your customers, and how superb design translates creativity into an
implementable schematic.
Peart goes on to show that in order to create art that is infused with
emotion and original in nature, one has to have intuition and
inspiration. The book demonstrates this by exploring methods the author
has used during his long career to forge a very successful custom
furniture business that has produced art of lasting value.
Peart draws upon William Varnum's book, Industrial Arts Design.
However, he stresses that this is just a starting point, and that
equations and rules cannot create original art. For that, intellect,
intuition, and inspiration are required, all of which are discussed in
relation to art and craft. From there Peart moves on to demonstrate how
you can enhance your own design and craftsmanship abilities by a process
he calls "Design DNA." Design DNA is a framework for asking the right
questions, a procedure he examines at length.
The Artisan Furnituremaker is the ultimate resource for creators
looking to take their craft to the next level and produce striking,
original work.
