Arnold S. Constable, Architect (1885-1981)

Just something I'd like to share.

A few years ago I wanted to fill a corner in our kitchen. I found this leafy image that works with the room. It was found in a local sale, and an original rendering too. The size is 18" x 25". I love the macro composition of the flowing forms.

Arnold S. Constable, Architect (1885-1981)

Arnold Sutherland Constable was born in North Shields, Northumberland England and studied at the University of Durham from 1900 to 1905, graduating from Kings College. He went on to win the King’s prize in Architecture, honors in building construction, Royal Institute of British Architects. In the fall of 1907 he arrives in Tacoma, Washington U.S.A. to team up with Arnott Woodroofe forming the firm of Woodroofe & Constable. They were strong advocates of the new Craftsman style. Both came from Britain where their architectural training immersed them in British Arts & Crafts movement of the previous 20 years. They arrived in Tacoma just as the new Craftsman style began to dominate American residential architecture. Together they would build over 60 buildings in Tacoma and Lakewood, almost all residences in the Craftsman style. The partnership dissolved in 1913 and Constable moved on to Seattle to work as chief designer for the Beezer Brothers from 1913-1917, as a draftsman for A.H. Albertson from 1918-1919 and as a designer for John Graham and Company from 1921-1922. By 1923 Constable and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay area in California where he built a prominent architectural office noted for a number of ecclesiastic projects such as the English Gothic Church of St. Dominic in San Francisco, Saint Mary Magdalen, Berkeley and College of Saint Albert the Great, Berkley, as well as residential works such as his house at 622 Sausalito Blvd.

Here a few images of his that appeared in The Building News and Engineering Journal, 1907 …
https://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/search?search=ARNOLD S. CONSTABLE

 

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