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Cowboy High Style: Thomas Molesworth to the New West
Author(s): Elizabeth Clair Flood (Author)
- Publisher: Gibbs Smith
- Publication Date: January 1, 1995
- Language: English
- Print length: 176 pages
- ISBN-10: 087905672X
- ISBN-13: 9780879056728
Book Description
Thomas Molesworth has inspired a new generation of men and women who, today, are leading the country in western revival by crafting quality furnishings of leather, driftwood, swollen burls, and peeled poles. This book takes a fascinating look at the Arts & Crafts tradition–the way it was then and the way it continues now. Functional, comfortable, and often whimsical, the works shown here are representative of the furniture and accessories that are so popular today.
Paperback; 140
Paperback; 140
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
“A handsome, sophisticated look at the best of the breed–designer Thomas Molesworth.” –San Francisco Chronicle
From authentic Thomas Molesworth collectibles to new western furnishings, Cowboy High Style presents the solid and fanciful designs of furniture makers who are leading today’s western revival.
Bowlegged cowboys, buffalo silhouettes, bucking horses, Indian teepees, antlered elk–all icons that symbolize the rugged West. These, plus sensual natural woods, vibrant leathers, and colorful woven wool fabrics, are the raw materials of western casual elegance featured in this book.
Elizabeth Clair Flood, a San Francisco native and graduate of Georgetown University, is a freelance writer living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her articles have appeared in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Cowboys and Indians, and West. She is the author of Old-Time Dude Ranches Out West (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1995.)
From authentic Thomas Molesworth collectibles to new western furnishings, Cowboy High Style presents the solid and fanciful designs of furniture makers who are leading today’s western revival.
Bowlegged cowboys, buffalo silhouettes, bucking horses, Indian teepees, antlered elk–all icons that symbolize the rugged West. These, plus sensual natural woods, vibrant leathers, and colorful woven wool fabrics, are the raw materials of western casual elegance featured in this book.
Elizabeth Clair Flood, a San Francisco native and graduate of Georgetown University, is a freelance writer living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her articles have appeared in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Cowboys and Indians, and West. She is the author of Old-Time Dude Ranches Out West (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1995.)
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Introduction
In the northwestr corner of Wyoming, brisk winds whistle over boundless plains of sagebrush and up through ancient citadels of red rock. Below the wind-carved horizon formed by the Absaroka Mountain range, the South Fork of the Shoshone River laps idly in the frosty air as snow spirals across this uncivilized land. In the midst of this unbridled wilderness in the mid-1800s, a lonely cowboy, alias of a jack-of-all-trades, sits by his pot-bellied stove, building a piece of furniture out of logde-pole pine, a bundle of willows, and a stack of driftwood. After a summer and fall of tough, strenuous work with the cattle, winter is the season to stay warm and create a home.
