AROUND HOME : Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement 1890-1920

COMPILED BY TOD M. VOLPE AND BETH CATHERS, TEXT BY ALASTAIR DUNCAN

(Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988)

IN HER introduction, Leslie Bowman writes: “The American arts and crafts movement believed art and industry could work together; believed, too, that people should not compete with Nature, but should understand and respect it.” Those craftsmen--Frank Lloyd Wright, Gustav Stickley, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Harvey Ellis and others--are beautifully represented here with simple designs made of rich materials: everything from furniture to jewelry. Anyone who has ever yearned to rock the night away in a Stickley rocking chair will, after reading this book, have lots more things to covet. ($49.50)