The Workers Movement and the Gamble House At the turn of the century, Southern California gave birth to the Craftsman movement, which quickly spread to the rest of the country through pattern books and popular magazines. He became the dominant style for smaller houses of 1905-1920. In various forms, it became accessible to almost anyone, from the worker to the elite of society.
Mainly inspired by the works of architecture of brothers Charles and Henry Greene in Pasadena, Calif., home was a craftsman of departure of the official decoration of the Victorian era. Literally a breath of fresh air, it gave off a oneness with nature, a relaxed lifestyle, and an air of elegant simplicity for a company servantless.
The Craftsman house seemed to leave the earth and took its clues from nature. Great shelter overlooking the air conditioning provided, winter relief, shelter and psychological wall covering, usually of wood shingles or shakes, jumps that looked like they were left to Stumble Upon and interior designs were reminiscent of the great outdoors.
Although the Greenes were influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie style and the basic forms of HH Richardson, they were extremely impressed by the Japanese concept of functional house. Responding to adverse laws of nature and the rapidly changing needs of the family, he stressed the relationship between structure and design, proportions and subtle integration of a building in its natural environment. Aided by these theories, their interest in the arts and Crafts English, and experience in manual arts, the Greenes established the "California Bungalow".
Their 1908 masterpiece, the Gamble House in Pasadena, said the use of exposed joinery that seems to grow out of the house, spacious verandahs and after construction of the beam, and aisles, the use of earthy materials and the close ties of home and garden. Asymmetrical horizontal, image slices of natural beauty. The low slope gable roof, wide eaves false, exposed roof rafters, triangular supports braced, transomed Windows (3) are typical Craftsman ideals.
The Japanese influence is seen in the relationship of the house of nature, exposed beams, fireplaces and ambience of the garage roof, and the stylized Japanese "Cloud Lift" design, seen on doors, windows, lamps, rugs , furniture, frames and elsewhere throughout the interior and exterior of the house.
Other reasons adding the unit are the "Tree of Life", the "Oak Leaf", series 3, and the Crane "and the rose (the emblem of the family Gamble), with the attention more diligent in every detail.
On entering and leaving the Gamble House, one is amazed by the great door. From the outside, a reflection of what appears to be an oak upright behind you. The vertical cloud lifts, sets of three, and Louis Comfort Tiffany glass (up to three glasses of thickness) are a clue to what you're about to encounter as you step beyond. They draw you into a serene, calm, and yet see exciting whets the appetite for more. The horizontal bar below the transom is another ground around the house done on many windows. The bars look like curtain rods, but in fact there to add the unit. This horizontal, as seen in the scan lines off the outside of the House, provides rest.
If you look at the door from the inside, the same oak, now considered beyond the house, gives the feeling of being part of nature. The scene of the window, always so sensitive to light changes dramatically as the day progresses.
impeccable woodwork is the highlight of the breathtaking interior. Everything is covered. Scarf, knees and joints of the fingers (and bit into the tendon) does not allow for a crevice exposed.
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Posted on April 24, 2010.
