November 2012

Gil Schafer's first book, The Great American House: Tradition for the Way We Live Now, gives a first-hand, personal look at the firm's restorations, renovations, and traditionally-designed homes.

Johnson Lasky Architects undertakes the restoration of Howard Van Doren Shaw's Ragdale House, a historic artists' retreat in Lake Forest, IL.

Architects Dale and Susan Frens restore a 19th-Century Queen Anne to include sustainability and green practices.

Today's traditional lantern designers have to rely on reproductions and historical paintings and illustrations to recreate these historically-styled lanterns.

Architect Don B. McDonald designs rural homes that utilize the culture, history, and traditional building materials of the region.