Forest Craft Guild Remains Elusive, But Rewarding
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…
Is That A Real Elbert Hubbard Signature?
Or was it an early case of identity theft?
Books, articles, letters, manuscripts, editorials and essays flowed forth from Elbert Hubbard’s pen at a pace no other writer of the Arts & Crafts era could match. From 1896, when Hubbard personally…
Motawi Tile Marks Robie House Centennial
Motawi Tileworks is joining the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Robie House in Chicago.
Designed for his client Frederick C. Robie in 1908 and completed…
Why Ephraim?
Although they were not first to take part in the Arts & Crafts revival, Ephraim Faience Pottery may now have become the most sought-after contemporary art pottery today.
And it came as no accident.
When Ephraim Faience Pottery was founded…
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