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Top Ten Tips for Conference Newcomers
by Bruce Johnson Make sure you returned your name badge form. Your name badge is your ticket to nearly all of the conference events. In order to avoid having a line form at the Registration Desk, we print these in our office in advance of the conference. If you did not send your form to us, you will slow down everyone behind you. The name badge form is included in the attendee packet all attendees receive. Call your hotel the week before the conference to confirm your registration. Hotels make mistakes, especially as many new employees are …
Little Journeys
By Bruce Johnson
A Family Affair
This week’s Collector’s Guide down below is one we pulled from our archives, as it deals with Arts and Crafts antiques which once had been inside the 1913 Grove Park Inn. Thinking about it brought back memories of some of my first encounters with those early Grove Park Inn antiques. First, a disclaimer. The owners and management at the Grove Park Inn have always made it clear that they are not a museum, and that they had no interest in purchasing pieces which had once been a part of the hotel. They are satisfied with having an …
Collector’s Guide
The Famous – And Elusive – “GPI Chair”
With the National Arts & Crafts Conference coming up in one month, I thought this Collector’s Guide article would be relevant to those readers with an eye for the furniture we love so much at the Conference. By the way, make sure you are getting your planning done for your time at the Grove Park Inn. If you don’t already have an attendee packet, please click here to access the online PDF version on our website. Now for a brief history of the Grove Park Inn chair… Original date of publication: December 17th, 2012. When Frederick Loring Seely, …
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
