Description
Learn how to couple inspired design with flawless execution to create your own striking, original furniture. Furniture maker Darrell Peart provides a master class on the three fundamental requirements for success in the field of custom furniture design: creativity, design and workmanship. The book offers a detailed examination of the design and production methods of the Greene brothers, legendary furniture makers and architects of the Arts and Crafts movement, describing how the brothers achieved such brilliance in their designs and collaborated so successfully with the craftsmen who brought their designs to life.
The book goes on to show how you can combine creativity, design and workmanship in your own workshop and produce high-quality, distinctively original pieces. Peart covers how creativity is essential for fulfilling the desires of your customers, and how superb design translates creativity into an implementable schematic.
Peart goes on to show that in order to create art that is infused with emotion and original in nature, one has to have intuition and inspiration. The book demonstrates this by exploring methods the author has used during his long career to forge a very successful custom furniture business that has produced art of lasting value.
Peart draws upon William Varnum’s book Industrial Arts Design but stresses that this is just a starting point, and that equations and rules cannot create original art. For that, intellect, intuition and inspiration are required, all of which are discussed in relation to art and craft. From there, Peart moves on to demonstrate how you can enhance your own design and craftsmanship abilities by a process he calls “Design DNA,” a framework for asking the right questions, a procedure he examines at length.
This is the ultimate resource for creators looking to take their craft to the next level and produce striking, original work.
Softcover, 116 pages, 2023.