The Arts and Crafts movement, with its rejection of mass production technology, gave rise to an enthusiasm for fine art printing, and Chicago, where Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) practiced architecture early in his career was a national center for artisan produced books. With a skilled hand and a powerful eye for elegant ornament, Wright designed several books for the tiny Auvergne Press in the late 1890s; The House Beautiful is the finest of them. Its text, by Unitarian minister William Gannett, proposed that spiritual, intellectual, and bodily health was augmented by a properly designed and furnished home. Gannett's views dovetailed with Wright's emerging theory of organic architecture. The complex, exacting drawings adapted for reproduction in this notecard set were borders for the book's text and carpet pages that introduced new chapters. One dozen assorted cream-colored embossed cards (3 each of 4 designs) with white envelopes in a decorative box. Cards are 4 3/4" square; see the current postage rate for square cards. |
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