Collector’s Guide

Frank Lloyd Wright With a Hard Hat?

When given a lemon, make lemonade. That must have been on the minds of the staff at Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1910 Robie House in Chicago recently, when faced with the prospect of several weeks of daily restoration work taking place inside the…

A Religious Experience

“The only person who doesn’t find anything is the one who quit looking.” This often-quoted phrase rang true again this past month at David Rago’s Early 20th Century Design auction in Lambertville, NJ. The opening lot was a colorful,…

Shop of the Crafters: A Research Report

by J. McCracken and Michael McCracken.   A grant was received from the Arts and Crafts Research fund to support our research on the Shop of the Crafters in Cincinnati, OH. The Shop of the Crafters is one of the lesser known Arts and Crafts…

Frost Arts and Crafts Workshop

After reading Brad Clark’s letter which I printed in this week’s Little Journeys, I was curious to learn more about the Frost Arts and Crafts Workshop. A quick Google search took me to a familiar, reliable website: ChicagoSilver.com. Sub-titled…

A Gummy Situation

In going through some old files, I found this chain of correspondence I felt would be fun to run again: May 25, 2010 Dear Bruce, I recently discovered that the old armchair I found in a house is a Gustav Stickley chair. As I was cleaning…

Spooning

Thirty years ago, when my first son Eric was born, my good friend Emyl Jenkins sent me a small Wallace Silver Company spoon, along with a note that said, “Every child should be born with a silver spoon in his mouth.” That spoon had been…

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