Arts & Crafts / Shingle StyleRecommended Books
The Shingle Style and the Stick Style
by Vincent Scully: Gibbs Smith, 2006
Still in print, the groundbreaking discourse by Yale architecture professor Scully that named the style in the 1950s. Not a picture book.
Shingle Styles
by Brett Morgan: Abrams, 1999.
Very helpful in understanding Shingle architecture and its evolution. Explains the thread that runs from the New England houses of the 1880s through A. Page Brown in San Francisco, Craftsman and Prairie styles, the Rustic, and today’s residential architecture. Stunning photos of 30 important houses of different eras right up to its post-Modern revival.
The Houses of McKim, Mead & White
by Samuel G. White: Universe, 2004
The pre-eminent firm is known for their Beaux Arts classicism and their public commissions. Seminal, too, were the early houses of MMW and especially those of Stanford White, built for wealthy Easterners during the Gilded Age. From 1879 to 1912, the firm designed over 300 houses in places like Newport, the Hudson Valley, and Long Island. Many were Shingle Style. Here we see exteriors and rooms inside.
Creating the Artful Home: The Aesthetic Movement
by Karen Zukowski: Gibbs Smith, 2006
In America, the Aesthetic Movement was popular in the same decades as the Shingle Style (1870-1900), and they share traits as transitional styles between Victorian excess and the more naturalistic Arts and Crafts sensibility. This book is more than a history of the movement; it provides insight into the rationale and is helpful for finding a creative approach to home-making now.
The Aesthetic Movement
by Lionel Lambourne: Phaidon, 1996
The English art movement of the 1880s and 1890s that had such great impact even in America. The book is monumental but very readable, starting with the Japonisme fad and moving on to Whistler, Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Godwin, even Mackintosh. Lavish.
William Morris: Décor and Design
by Elizabeth Wilhide: Pavilion Books, 1997
A focused, intelligent resource that doesn’t lose its appeal. Morris’s wallpapers and furnishings are the theme, accompanied by photos of rooms decorated by Morris & Co., and contemporary interpretations, with illustrated pattern glossaries.
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Home
by Pamela Todd: Chronicle, 2005
An introduction to the designs and philosophy of Morris, followed by beautifully photographed case histories of houses today recently decorated in the Morris way (old houses and new, in the U.K and the U.S.).
Related:
The Colonial Revival House
by Richard Guy Wilson: Abrams, 2004
The early years of the Colonial Revival in America and its motifs closely overlap those of the Shingle Style. This is a one-of-a-kind, smart, beautiful volume that includes 275 photos for inspiration.
See also:
Many books are in print about William Morris, the Aesthetic Movement, and the English Arts and Crafts Movement.See books about the work of John Calvin Stevens in Maine, and Bernard Maybeck in California. See out-of-print books about the work of Richard Norman Shaw in England.
