As you may have noticed, in recent weeks we have featured articles about the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, universally celebrated as the most influential architect of the 20th century.
Coincidentally, I was recently in Davenport, Iowa,…
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This week's articles on the Toomey & Co. auction in Oak Park, Illinois, and the Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School masterpiece in South Chicago, prompted me to pull from our archives a little journey I made to Oak Park several…
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It isn’t often in the Arts and Crafts world that someone is known simply by their first name, but anyone who had the good fortune to know Penelope Clourtier immediately understood why to her friends she was always “Penelope.”
And our…
Boy, has this week slipped by fast.
It is already Thursday and I am just now writing my column and sending out the weekly blast.
To catch up on what happened at the end of the conference, it took until the wee hours of Monday morning to get…
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As I explained to our seminar crowd gathered in the Grand Ballroom last night, in the early years of the National Arts and Crafts Conference, we always had a seminar scheduled for Saturday evening, but as more people elected to leave the Grove…
After thirty years, who would have thought we could have set yet another attendance record?
Especially in an era when antiques shows are struggling to stay alive.
As I mentioned several times this past year, I was worried that after our record-breaking…
