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20th Century Design at Skinner Auctions
by Kate Nixon 20th Century Design, Skinner Auctions December 14, 2018 at 10:00AM 63 Park Plaza, Boston Online bidding available at https://www.skinnerinc.com/buying/ The classics of the Arts and Crafts Movement will be on display and up for bid this Friday, December 14th at Skinner Auctions. The Boston auction house, which offers more than 60 auctions annually, is known for showcasing both antique and contemporary fine and decorative art, jewelry, design and much more — and this Friday, will feature objects and furniture dating from the turn of the 20th century to more modern times. Among the offerings are a …
Little Journeys
By Bruce Johnson
Remodeling Project Part Six: One For the Record Books
Asheville hasn’t received this much attention since the total eclipse of the sun in August of 2017. This time it was snow, not total darkness, that captured the media’s focus. To someone who grew up in Illinois mowing yards in the summer and shoveling sidewalks in the winter, snow storms in Asheville are both rare and over-dramatized. Schools are cancelled on the basis of a dire prediction, and many times golfers are back on the course by early afternoon. Not this time. Fortunately, this was such a slow-moving storm coming from the West Coast that we had …
Collector’s Guide
Greene & Greene Table and Teco Vase Sell Big at Toomey’s Tradition & Innovation Sale
by Kate Nixon Toomey & Co. Auctioneers presented two back to back auctions this past Sunday, December 2nd: Tradition & Innovation, its inaugural auction of important works from the 19th century started at 10:00 a.m. CST and Art & Design, a collection of all things Art and Design at 11:30 a.m. CST. The first of the two events fared very well, receiving plenty of attention for lots by Charles Rohlfs, Greene & Greene, Edward Curtis, Grueby Faience, and Fritz Albert Teco to name a few. The pieces that did particularly well were a signed and branded Greene & Greene dining …
Traveler’s Guide
Whether it be a museum with an Arts & Crafts collection, a nearby Prairie School home, a bungalow neighborhood, an Arts & Crafts gallery or a Frederick Law Olmstead park, just being able to add an Arts & Crafts side trip to our journey would add to our enjoyment and our education.
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How-To Videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how valuable is a video?
Here at ArtsandCraftsCollector.com we have been busy making brief, informative videos to educate and instruct viewers in a variety of aspects of Arts & Crafts collecting.
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Know Your Shopmarks
We are currently in the process of collecting, organizing, identifying and displaying on this website as many Arts & Crafts shopmarks as possible. And like our Reference Library, we need your help. While we have documented the shopmarks of the major Arts & Crafts firms, we need for you to email us a photograph of any shopmarks you have from lesser known firms, along with a brief description of the piece.
Shopmark Guide
Books Worth Reading
As both a collector and a researcher, I have often wished there was one site where every book ever written on the Arts & Crafts movement was listed. Now that place exists. Together we can compile on this website a list of every book of interest to Arts & Crafts collectors. All you have to do is pull some of the books off your bookshelf (go for the less obvious ones – and check below for duplicate entries) and email me the title, author, publisher and most recent copyright date. I will sort them by category and list them here so that anytime you or anyone else wants to research anything relating to the Arts & Crafts movement, you will start your search here.
Reference Library
