Customer Reviews

Greene & Greene

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Above normal production with some very nice touches. Very well written and complete text, although there is a painful flaw to this publication. The floor plans and a vast number of the desriptive pictures are improperly sized for viewing. Greene & Greene's art-like floor plan drawings have been reduced to something impossible to read and interpret. Considering the price of this volumn, this is an inexcusable flaw. As a coffee table publication this might be acceptable but for the money its a shame the publisher did not catch this oversight.

I am a furniture maker working in the G&G style and have been a serious fan for many years. In fact, I have just finished writing my own book on Greene and Greene furniture ( from a woodworker's viewpoint). I relied on information found in Edward R. Bosley's book for my own book. I found his book to be the most in-depth and accurate book available on the subject of Greene and Greene. If you are a fan of G&G this book is an absolute necessity!
I would also highly recommend Bruce Smith's book "Greene and Greene Masterworks".

I grew up in Pasadena and have been waiting for a book like this on the greene and Greene brothers. This book makes all the other previous books look naive, fawning, and lame.This book treats the subject, that is, the architecture, properly.

My interest in the Greene brothers started from my interest in their furniture as I enjoy building furniture. My interest has expanded to their architecture as well.

Greene & Greene gives history of their work and a little about their lives.

The drawbacks to the book are in my opinion are 1. The description of the architecture is detailed and not supported by enough pictures and so is hard to follow. Most of the illustrations are too small to really see. That is especially true of the drawings 2. There is just enough about the Charles and Henry Greene to tantalize you but not enough to satisfy you.

The pluses of the book are that even with the drawbacks, you get a feel for the wonderful work that they did and their thought processes. They had a rare feel for the totality of the fabulous homes they designed.

I have read every book available today on Greene & Greene and have found Mr. Bosley's to be the most informative. Many of the images found throughout are unique to this book and are an excellent companion to the text. If you're looking for either a general introduction to Greene & Greene or a valuable reference to their life and work, this is the book to own.

Nice book, lots of nice pictures of houses, but I was looking for more pictures and drawings of their furnature