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再见浪花 发表于 2014-6-13 23:00  6 k* ]" ~0 J6 l% | s: r1 B
非常漂亮的提篮！烦劳老兄能简单介绍下那本《Greene&Greene furniture》的书么？如果不错，也想买来了 ...
这本书目前在美国的亚马逊网站上的价格是47.99美元，这里是链接。% A& K# `1 r C
0 @7 s) |# I3 y+ {8 G A2 I书的封面除了正标题外，底下还加了" Poems of Wood and Light"，意思是说G&G风格的家具是”体现木头和光线的诗篇“。在这类家具中，还有许多木灯类的传世作品。
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1 V8 }( Q! `4 g' M3 uG&G风格的家具初看非常粗旷，其实它的细节是非常讲究的，制作起来也不容易。
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这本书可以说是一个经典类的书籍了，评价颇高，全是5星际得分，特转发亚马逊网站一个读者的评述如下：. K% B5 y; w9 C
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5.0 out of 5 stars Much more than I expected, October 27, 20100 u4 P8 U1 i! i3 v( P
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a reader - See all my reviews
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Verified Purchase<span][url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/community-help/amazon-verified-purchase]What's]This review is from: Greene & Greene Furniture: Poems of Wood & Light (Hardcover)
( M7 D' S; s" L- `* y: @$ b NWhen I bought this book, I expected much from it. I got what I expected, and much more. I will try to explain, in the following lines, why I believe prospective buyers should not hesitate in buying it, even if they already own one or more books on the subject.% l0 u o2 V% T/ v! D3 s w8 Y0 `
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A) Why this book?7 X. O* u6 s* [+ x
In view of the fact that there are several excellent books available on the subject, the question is whether this one is redundant. A quote from the book gives the author's view:
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'This brings us back to the question that Bill Evans asked me, "Does the world really need another Greene & Greene book?" The unspoken subtext of that question goes something like this: "There are already many excellent books on the topic. Do you have anything new to add?" I believe that the answer to that question is "yes." I submit that there is something new in these pages.
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I have not tried to reinvent the wheel by writing a definitive history. Any such attempt would be doomed to failure by comparison. Makinson, Bosley and Smith have set the bar too high. Unlike the others I came to Greene & Greene through woodworking... Woodworkers, even hobbyists like me, develop an eye for details and a curiosity about how those details are implemented...
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8 t5 p2 m& C( JThink of this book as a guided tour through the "Greene and Greene store"... There are many photos here of exteriors or entire rooms. What makes this book different, however, is that there are also many photos that focus on details. While the best books on the topic are filled with photos of pieces of furniture, the reader is often left wanting to see more, to see close-ups of inlays, pegs and joinery, the beautiful details that define what we know as the Greene & Greene vocabulary. In those pages the reader will find those close-up shots along with discussion of the broader themes of the designs./ r$ f0 E1 }4 p/ ?# ?" n
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The topic of this book then is Greene & Greene design with a focus on the details that distinguish their work. Pegs and lifts are obvious... Of course, there is much more variety, and subtlety, to the Greene & Greene canon. We explore that here. Additionally, it is best to examine Greene & Greene pieces in context.... we can consider the recurring, unifying themes that are an important aspect of the design philosophy, one that merits closer examination.'1 e7 f! W+ b1 w/ q
. W: b+ Z) A' t, k" @4 V& C& yB) The photos:
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Having read several books on Greene and Greene, I bought this one for the photos mainly. Having seen the preview in the author's site ([...]), I had very high expectations in this area, and I was not disappointed - in fact, the preview, due to the small size, can't do justice to the photos in the book. What you can see in the preview is the quality of the photos - obviously the author is a photographer of a very high caliber, and has been given the time he needed to produce excellent photos.# N e( a$ e: I
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What you can NOT see in the preview, due to the size limitation, is the complexity and detail inherent in every picture. This is a feature of the Greene & Greene furniture and architecture, of course - apparent simplicity, underlying complexity, wealth of detail - but the photos in this book, unlike those in some others, do justice to it. These are photos you can really study, not just look at and enjoy.
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Given the quality of the photos, it is very fortunate that the book is choke full of them. There is hardly a page without photos in the book, and each photo is there for a reason - they are not thrown in just to fill the pages, or just for their eye-candy value, but they also serve to illustrate specific points made in the text (text? which text? I just said I wasn't particularly interested in it, didn't I?)
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$ J$ k9 K" M" z) p& p' U( yI have always thought that writing the text for a coffee-table book is a thankless job: writing a text that will mostly be ignored, for a book which people buy for the pictures. But hey, it's OK if it helps pay the rent, isn't it?7 @4 n1 _/ X0 m+ E% x/ C
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Well, not in this case. The author didn't write the text just to accompany the pictures, or to fill the pages. He doesn't merely repeat what has been written elsewhere. He didn't feel he could write the definitive history, so he didn't attempt to write one. Sure, there is a brief section (around 18 pages, minus the pictures) on history (as it should, for completeness - this is a standalone book, not an appendix to works of other authors), but even this one is not mere repetition of what has been written elsewhere.& _/ ?- a7 c7 z% y5 ^ d. R& p
! q; E% l9 B: {. j$ m7 d+ zAs I was reading the pictures (this is not a mistyping), again and again my attention would be absorbed by the text. I would read the caption of one photo, then a paragraph of the text, then the next paragraph, then I would jump back to the beginning of the chapter. And again and again, I found in the text something which I hadn't read elsewhere, insights of the author which make absolute sense. Although the author doesn't present himself as a Greene & Greene scholar, it is obvious that he has done his homework and more.- G& w5 W, L" M8 ?9 s1 ^2 g
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This book is obviously a labor of love. Great text, great photography, great insights, great details. If you already have other books on the subject, you 'll love this one. If it is the first one, it will be a great introduction which will probably lead you to get more.* P1 k/ Y& j& S5 }9 A2 z
$ n0 `+ f+ F: @( VNow the only thing we need is for Ipekjian to finally decide to start writing.
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& {; k3 v* t1 a# C' G* yOnly thing I regret about buying this book, is that I could have ordered a signed copy via the author's site.3 @* r' I, _ M& ^" D
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楼主: woodsensor
发表于 2014-6-14 16:29:20
非常感谢woodsensor老兄！回头一定买一本来好好看看！也烦劳仁兄以后再遇到类似的图书，在方便之时，不吝与国内的兄弟们介绍则个，一同充实下大脑，开拓下思维！
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