True Greene & Greene

摘要

The marrying of styles is a tricky business. Add the wrong elements, or too much of one over another, and the results look wrong and out of place. Brothers Charles and Henry Greene, the California architects of the early 20th century, created a marriage of styles that continues to please the eye and capture the imagination 100 years later. They took the plainness and exposed joinery of Arts and Crafts furniture, mixed it with the subtlety of Chinese furniture and the boldness of Japanese temple design, and then with a final flourish threw in a taste of the sinuous lines of Art Nouveau. The result is a style that has been revered, copied, and rediscovered, but remains uniquely Greene and Greene.