If Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind?
We got a brief reminder this past weekend of what Spring will be like, and we drank it in deeply, like a silky glass of rich, red wine.
The sun came out, the thermometer flirted with fifty degrees, a flock of robins congregated in the hay…
A Mystical Evening at the Grove Park Inn
It was one of those rare evenings that you swear could never be repeated – then was.
In 1932 twenty-year-old Edgar Tafel stepped off the train in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and stepped into the world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Among the first…
Heart, Heart and Hand
My latest little journey did not take me far from home. Last week I made a trip over to Gennett Lumber, located in the old warehouse and railroad district next to the French Broad River flowing north through Asheville. I was headed there to…
Buy, Sell or Hold?
After my good friend Robert Hause sent me the photographs of the Karl Kipp stamp box which first appeared last week in our Collector's Guide, he emailed me back to let me know he had had several offers to buy it. Robert, who is a talented woodworker…
The Man Who Opened Up the Arts & Crafts World For Us
In 1972, the year "The Arts & Crafts Movement in America" opened to little fanfare in Princeton, New Jersey, I was an idealistic, naïve, war-protesting English major in Illinois, searching for a job teaching high school students how to…
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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.