The Beautiful Necessity

  • The Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts and Crafts
    The Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts and Crafts
    By Bruce Smith

    Describes the aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts Movement, presents examples of the architecture and furnishings it produced, and offers suggestions on the period details--including furniture, accessories, tiles, stenciling, moldings,...

  • The Beautiful Necessity: Essays on Architecture
    The Beautiful Necessity: Essays on Architecture
    By Claude Bragdon

    Seven illustrated essays by a noted American builder of the early 20th century examine ancient and modern structures, offering a master class in the architectural union of art, beauty, and science.

  • The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
    The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
    By Claude Fayette Bragdon

    The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture

  • The Beautiful Necessity
    The Beautiful Necessity
    By Claude Fayette Bragdon

    Art is at all times subject to the 'Beautiful Necessity' of proclaiming the 'world order'.

  • The Beautiful Necessity
    The Beautiful Necessity
    By Claude Bragdon

    More and more science is coming to recognize, what theosophy affirms, that the spiral vortex... both in its time and its space aspects is the universal archetype... -from "Changeless Change" First published in 1910 and updated in 1922-this ...