Style: Greene & Greene

Is this deja vu or what?

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

This reminds me of a blond joke.

This reminds me of a blond joke.

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke". http://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/ (my funny blog)

msDebbie…................. Why you always do this to keep us in suspense? why?.................LOL

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

loosen the cap a little debbie…the snow is beginning to melt (at least down here…). Oh wait, no snow…

either way…the cap may be restricting the blood flow to the brain…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

What ever it is, it must be great!!!

MsDebbie is so excited she’s repeating herself!!!!!

Is this another “Ground Hog Day” thing???

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

Let me guess… hummmmmmm…. Oh, I know, it’s a waiting topic!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

it’s just a strategy to get people’s creativity flowing. Just imagine what you can create in the woodshop now that your mind is spinning

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

It must be tops or a woodturning project…......................LOL

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

lol there ya go .. :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I knew it…....... and to go with that it must be another contest posting from Martin…...........Yea

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

uh huh :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

A container for a soon to be legal formerly illicit smoking substance?

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

um… no.
We’ll just let that idea go up in smoke
lol :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I thunk MsDebbie forgot it is March 3rd already and no newsletter…..............................and I thunk she also forgot about this post…..........................mmmmmmmmmmmmm

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

the newsletter is out of my hands. So now I’m waiting along with you.
Pressure is on for ME not to forget to update this post

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Seems like we have been here and done this before Debbie.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

hahah :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I’m tired of waiting. Guess I’ll go and find something else to do ….................. No newsletter, no news here. Guess it must all be bad…..........LOL

Grumpy is right. Been there, Done that.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

:)
I was told “tomorrow”.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

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-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Ok, the secret’s out.

So here goes: I know nothing about Greene & Greene. I think I first saw it on this site.
From what little I know about them, I appreciate their point of view, but frankly their furniture must be a pursuit of an ideal but it does not appeal to me.

it seems cool that they learned about woodworking at university ( why wasn’t that offered when I went? I might have preferred it to mathematics) but the flipside is : they learned woodworking at a university.

I’m sure I’ll be in the minority with my point of view…but you did ask.

-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com

I must of missed something.
Anyway i,m in the mood to start a fight, so here goes.
Greene and Greene are overrated. While they are the darlings of the Arts and Craft crowd and may have drawn a lot of pretty pictures most of their stuff was nicked from the japanese, and it was all made by someone else anyway. We, as woodworkers, should be kneeling at the altar of the brothers Hall as they were the ones who had to decipher the scribbles to come up with the pieces we so admire today. Yes i am aware that without the scribbles of GandG the furnishings would not exist in the first place but it raises my bile that designers take all the glory and the craftsman, whose blood, sweat and skill, are continualy forgotten.
Charles Rennie Macintosh! don,t get me started.

-- if the hand is not working it is not a pure hand

I have to give you a BIG THANK YOU!!! Debbie.

I clicked on my Greene & Greene style table, & I found out that none of my Videos worked.

I guess there was a code change, or something when I changed computers.

I ended up having to edit all of my posts on this project, & my blogs.

I’m going to have to check my other videos.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

I like the Greene and Greene style. I better because I’m building my kitchen cabinets in that style.

It’s been slowed by the cold weather, Glue doesn’t work too well in cold weather, and I’m too cheap to heat the shop just to watch glue dry.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

glad I could help Dick :)

that’s an interesting vision: sitting in the cold watching glue dry.
So what is it about G&G that you like, Karson?

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I have built nothing in that style, but I want to.

d

-- If a man says something in the forest and there's no woman to hear it, is he still wrong?

For some it might be a bit boxy looking, drab, or just to plain. The furniture was to blend into the room, not to be a focal point. I like it because you customize it to suit your own tastes, to me anyway.

-- Andy Stark

I’m with Daryl (kiwi1969), without the collaboration of Peter & John Hall, the Greene bros may never have become so recognized. After all it took almost 50 years for the Architectural Institute to recognize their work.
If any one is seriously interested in this body of work they should take a look at the Greene & Greene group in Yahoo. There are great discussions and loads of pictures posted mostly by commercial woodworkers but also by hobbyists like me. What makes the furniture unique and valuable is that each piece was made for a specific room in a specific client’s home and never reproduced or put into production by the Halls or the Greenes. In the summer of 2007 a Blacker HOuse dining chair sold at auction for over $950,000. Here’s a photo of the Hall brothers shop where all the furniture was made.
http://tinyurl.com/bbhnkg

-- Phil in British Columbia

Greene & Greene fits right in with our conglomeration of furniture styles.<(:O}#

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1