Storytelling about people, architecture, food, all things that matter
ABOUT ME
Bruce Smith, writer about decorative arts & architecture, and sometimes food
For over thirty years, Bruce Smith has been writing about early-twentieth-century decorative arts and architecture focusing especially on the architects Charles and Henry Greene. He is an expert on Japanese influences on American architecture, the Arts and Crafts movement, and has written on Japanese bathing culture, and the culinary arts.
His book Greene & Greene Masterworks was honored as one of the New York Times Editor’s Choice Architectural books in 1998. His latest collaboration, Six California Kitchens, co-authored with chef Sally Schmitt, was awarded the 2022 Golden Poppy Award by the California Independent Booksellers for best cookbook of that year, followed by the 2023 award for best cookbook in the American cooking category from the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
Based in Kamakura, Japan, Bruce continues to write on historical architecture and design, and is also working on a novel.
Latest Articles
The Poet and the Artist
Once, not that very long ago,… …there was a poet who loved to build by placing stone upon stone, first to build a home for his family, and then a tower for his wife. And there was an artist who had expressed his art through architecture, who also loved to
