Arts and Crafts Clock

I keep thinking about building an Arts and Crafts Style clock. i have been collecting pictures of examples  as a means of copying the style. This is one of them. 

Louise Brigham’s Box Furniture

This is an interesting article on part of the early arts and crafts movement in America that I was not aware of.  While a student I desperately wanted to have a nice house interior and I used the modern boxes that were available, the milk crate. They lacked the style found in these wooden boxes.  I even at one time had a chest o' drawers (without the drawers) made from cardboard boxes. One chap I know in town is collecting box wine boxes to make his couch out of. Well, hopefully those days are done for me and I can have some nicer antique furniture for the home, however the social implications of this book are fun for me to think about. I am sure that many a piece of 'box furniture' if it has survived has been sold as a 'primitive' (a questionable and classist term that needs to be dealt with in the future).  At any rate I am going to try and track down her book or a reprint because I want to peruse it. I figure that will be time well spent.

Well the good news is that my university's library has a copy and it is just in the stacks. This means I can go and pick it up this afternoon. No special permissions, collections or anything. Wonderful!