An Opportunity To Connect
If this is November, then it must be time to start thinking about the Arts & Crafts Conference.
Actually, we start thinking about next year’s Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference about the time the previous conference ends, as…
A Tale of Two Clocks
Last week I found myself zipping along I-74 just north of Davenport, Iowa, when I decided to drop in on an old friend. My 'friend' happens to be a grandfather clock, one of only five believed to have been made by the Roycrofters under the…
“If you had come to the Grove Park Inn in 1913…”
Many, many years ago, as I was writing my first book on Grove Park Inn and planning one of the early Arts & Crafts Conferences, I wrote:
"If you had come to the Grove Park Inn in 1913, you could have sat in Old Hickory rockers, read beneath…
“Give me two good reasons…..”
Many, many years ago, when I was an antiques dealer, we had a saying: the best thing that can happen to an antiques shop is to have one open next door.
The logic was simple -- give people two reasons to come and they are twice as likely to…
Expecting the Unexpected – Wherever You Are
While I was in Peoria last week I had the opportunity to take some long, afternoon walks, one of which took me to the Illinois Antiques Center, an old brick warehouse on the Illinois River that has been converted into offices, an art gallery…
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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.