The Grove Park Inn Is Sold -- Again !!

(Update: Asheville, June 17) Bruce Johnson -- The general manager and the national sales manager at the Grove Park Inn both reached out to me last week, by phone and in person. They wanted to assure me that the transition from KSL Partners to the Omni hotel management team would be seamless. Omni has already indicated that they intend for the Grove Park Inn to operate like an "independent hotel." I was assured that the Arts and Crafts Conference would only be affected...

Walking Toward The Simple Life

I have often written about the many aspects of being an Arts and Crafts collector, but more recently I have been thinking about one of the often overlooked tenets of the Arts and Crafts philosophy: the quest for The Simple Life.

Our homes are filled with gimmicks and gadgets that are supposed to make our lives easier, just like computers were supposed to make paper obsolete. But I have felled more trees with my printer than I have with my chain saw. I sit here at my...

Collecting Roycroft Lamps

Ask anyone about Arts and Crafts lighting and the name Roycroft is quickly going to enter the conversation.

In the current issue (#78, Summer 2013) of American Bungalow magazine, collector and website author David Kornacki has compiled the most comprehensive study of Roycroft lamps that I have ever read, along with an impressive array of color photographs and vintage Roycroft advertisements.

David points to 1913 as the turning point for the Roycroft Copper Shop,...

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