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GREENE & GREENE AT PRINCETON: THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICA 1876-1916 The Arts & Crafts world marked an important anniversary in 2022. It’s been fifty years since the first milestone exhibition dedicated to the Arts & Crafts movement brought together significant furniture, decorative arts, printed materials, and textiles made around the U.S. to recognize that turn of the century moment in American decorative arts. The exhibition was organized …Read More
NEWS FROM THE GREENE & GREENE ARCHIVES by Ann Scheid Recent Gifts: Filmmaker Paul Bockhorst donated materials used in the production of the documentary Greene & Greene: The Art of Architecture from 2003. Includes production logs, videocassettes and audiocassettes with interviews (raw data for the film), transcripts, script and final DVDs. Paul plans to also donate the materials related to other documentaries by him on Arts and Crafts architecture in …Read More
A GREENE & GREENE LANTERN FINDS ITS WAY BACK by Ted Bosley The news came to me on May 12, in an email from a friend: a Greene & Greene lantern was up for sale on Craig’s List. Even though I typically discover that these listing usually involve modern reproductions, I hurried to check out this particular lead. From the photo on Craig’s List I was pretty sure that this …Read More
2016 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Gamble House. As we look ahead to celebrating this benchmark we thought it would be useful to recap some of the highlights from the 2008 New and Native Beauty exhibition. This landmark exhibition celebrating the work of Greene & Greene was a partnership between The Gamble House and The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, and featured approximately 140 works designed by the Greenes …Read More
GREENE & GREENE FURNITURE: DESIGN WITHOUT COMPROMISE More labor? It barely registered in the exquisite examples from these brothers. What really mattered: Integrity, Beauty, and Utility by Darrell Peart & Ted Bosley for American Period Furniture Magazine Reprinted with permission Society of American Period Furniture Makers Greene & Greene furniture holds a unique place in the history of American woodworking. It marked a high point in the American Arts and …Read More