PrairieMod is an emerging 21st century lifestyle based on ten principles recognized and used by some of history's most influential designers; Gustav Stickley

Gustav Stickley

Gustav Stickley was a manufacturer of furniture and the leading proselytizer for the American Arts and Crafts movement, an extension of the British Arts and Crafts movement.-Biography:...

, Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...

, Richard Neutra

Richard Neutra

Richard Joseph Neutra is considered one of modernism's most important architects.- Biography :Neutra was born in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna, Austria Hungary, on April 8, 1892. He was born into both-Jewish wealthy family...

, Charles and Ray Eames

Charles and Ray Eames

Charles Ormond Eames, Jr and Bernice Alexandra "Ray" Eames were American designers, who worked in and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film.-Charles Eames:Charles Eames, Jr was born in...

, John Lautner and E. Fay Jones to name a few. The ten principles include Consider the Cost, Form is Function, Less Becomes More, Useful and Beautiful, Informal Meets Eloquent, Integrate and Unify, Bring the Outside In, Think Natural, Go Green and Uniquely You. It is believed that through the practice of these principles, one can excel in the art of modern living. A home should be designed in a way that fits the real needs of its inhabitants. To ignore this is to ultimately create an experience of dis-unity and dis-integration. As the practitioners of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Arts and Crafts movement

Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...

 believed, a beautiful home is the vehicle to a beautiful life.

The word PrairieMod itself is a conjunction of “Prairie” and “Modern”. It refers to two eras in architectural history that had a tremendous impact on American living; the Prairie School

Prairie School

Prairie School was a late 19th and early 20th century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States.The works of the Prairie School architects are usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands,...

 and Modernism.