Studio Notes

The composition of the various details: rivets, repoussé motifs, cutouts and strapping patterns all need to work together to create a symphony of richly crafted design. In particular, repoussé motifs can add a focal point or specific theme to the piece.  

Fine Homebuilding cover Summer 2010
Fine Homebuilding, summer 2010.

The summer 2010 edition of Fine Homebuilding featured a wonderful home, built in a Greene and Greene style, containing a number of items that Archive Designs had created, and we include scans of those pages here for your reading enjoyment.

The brothers Charles & Henry Greene, Pasadena architects, developed a unique design vocabulary based on an exquisite hybrid of several traditions, and "Greene & Greene" eventually became synonymous with their distinctive style.