Collector’s Guide

Avoiding a Bad Leather Day

My recent purchase of an L. & J. G. Stickley model #497 heavy armchair, which is called a Morris chair with a fixed back, prompted me to seek out a local upholsterer experienced with leather. In an effort to provide her with a photograph…

Are Pottery Collectors Simply Too Picky?

A nick here, a scratch there, a chip on the corner. These are normal occurrences for a furniture collector. They add character to a piece, proof that it has lived a long and storied life, and, in some cases, proof that it has not been over-refinished. But…

Art Pottery Out-Duels Furniture At Last Week’s Auctions

Years ago when most collectors felt they needed to bid in person at auction, the idea of having two major Arts and Crafts auctions on the same day would have seemed self-destructive. But now that cell phones and internet bidding have nearly…

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…

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