American Bungalow Magazine - The Magazine published in the interest of preserving and restoring the modest American 20th Century Home, the Bungalow, and the rich lifestyle that it affords.

For the editors and publishers of American Bungalow, as for many of our most devoted readers, books have been essential to our quarter-century-long journey into the Arts and Crafts experience, whether the trip has carried us into the farther reaches of architectural history and the evolution of craft traditions or into our home workshops to practice the local application of router and saw.

Over the years, the pages of the magazine we devoted to our Bungalow Bookstore’s colorful thumbnail images and pithy descriptions of books became a virtual landscape of the Arts and Crafts and Bungalow revivals, multiplying as the revivals gathered steam through the ’90s and into the new century. If you wanted to know the territory, you needed to look no further: It was all there.

Now, of course, the territory has morphed into an n-dimensional space called the World Wide Web, where the landscape is “virtual” not metaphorically but literally, and where, as at Alice’s Restaurant, you can get anything you want. As regular AB readers will have noticed, we’ve cut back sharply on the number of pages we’ve allotted to the Bungalow Bookstore in the print issue, urging prospective buyers to go instead to ambungalow.com to do their browsing and shopping online.

Now, because the economics of bookselling have been transformed in a world symbolized by Amazon.com, we’ve decided that continuing to maintain the Bungalow Bookstore as a sideline to our primary responsibility—producing American Bungalow magazine—no longer makes sense, either for us or for our readers.

So, as a service to the greater advancement of bungalow culture and to these book-loving readers, we’re liquidating the Bungalow Bookstore inventory and closing the shop. Every book in stock is priced to go. Now’s your chance to get all the books you thought you couldn’t afford, at rock-bottom prices—from the coffee-table extravaganzas to the obscure little reproductions of Stickley catalogs and bungalow plan books that make all this stuff so fascinating.

We’ll continue to cover the territory, of course. We’ll report on new books we know our readers will be interested in, and we’ll continue to review those we think have special merit. Best of all, we’ll now be able to do a lot more of that, and do it in real time, right here on the blog—where you can join the conversation.

Meanwhile, keep your eye on our site, because there are lots more changes coming that we think will enlighten and inform your American Bungalow experience. Now go fill your basket.

The Editor

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