Little Journeys

Judging a Book By Its Cover?

  “Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.” - Oscar Wilde     Oscar Wilde may have exaggerated what it takes to be an historian, if only to make his point, but he inspired me to turn his phrase ever…

A Prized Footstool

  Cleaning up a Gustav Stickley footstool last week, after bringing it out of our temporary storage unit, also brought back a couple of early memories.   When I moved to North Carolina in 1985, furniture collectors here were obsessed…

Coming Home to Roost

  “It is just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” - Frank Lloyd Wright   As many of you who attended this month’s 32nd National Arts and Crafts Conference here in Asheville know too well, traveling…

A Close Call

by Bruce Johnson   For 3,126 of you, your latest little journey was up Sunset Mountain to the 32nd National Arts and Crafts Conference and Shows at the iconic 1913 Grove Park Inn.     The day after the conference, mine…

Yearly Historic Homes Tours Offered at Conference

by Bruce Johnson   While Arts and Crafts collectors recognize the 1913 Grove Park Inn as an iconic symbol of the Arts and Crafts movement, the massive granite hotel was not built in a vacuum. As its mortared walls were rising on Sunset…

Following In Their Footsteps

If you are bothered by shameless acts of self-promotion, then you may not want to read this or, for that matter, anything on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, or LinkedIn. When a newspaper reporter once labeled me a “modern…

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