Eastwood Gallery: Built From a Garage Sale
For Cameron Quintal and Brian Smith, creating one of the most respected Arts and Crafts galleries in the country was not what they had originally intended.
Like so many Arts and Crafts collectors, by the year 2000 their separate collections…
To Sand Or Not To Sand . . . .
That was the question facing me in my workshop as I stood looking at one of my most recent purchases: a 1913 Roycroft dining chair made for the Grove Park Inn.
The Roycrofters only made 400 of these chairs for the hotel where, as you may know,…
The Forest Craft Guild
A reader sent me this photograph last week, along with a request for a copy of one of the early editions of the Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference catalog. It seems that ARK Antiques had included a full-page ad that included a brooch…
Early Roycroft Copper
When in 1895 Elbert Hubbard founded the Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, NY, he was primarily interested in publishing his first magazine, The Philistine, and a series of booklets under the title of Little Journeys. Strong sales and advertising…
Getting the Most Out of an Aerosol Can
I was in my workshop yesterday, not working on a piece of Arts & Crafts furniture, but, instead, I was completing a couple of pieces of unfinished furniture. One was destined to be a television prop, the other was going into a non-Arts &…
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ArtsandCraftsCollector.com is a website dedicated to exploring the works, artisans, historical origins and the contemporary revival of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. The historic movement started as a response to the country’s Industrial Revolution and encouraged simple design paying tribute to the natural world over the intricate design of the Victorian era.