Little Journeys

Seminar Excitement

Over the course of 30 National Arts and Crafts Conferences I have sat in the back of the Heritage Ballroom next to an audio-visual technician for somewhere around 200 seminars, not including a few of my own. As much as I have enjoyed them all,…

A Visit to Gustave Baumann’s Studio

The current Gustave Baumann exhibit in Pasadena prompted me to pull this former column up from our archives: My latest little journey took me to Santa Fe, where I met my oldest son Eric, who is finishing his doctorate in chemistry at the…

Strolling Around Savannah

Back in 1996, the Mint Museum in Charlotte published a book entitled “Southern Arts and Crafts: 1890-1940.” It was a very short book. I was reminded why this past weekend when Leigh Ann and I drove down to Savannah, Georgia for weekend…

If It’s Too Good To Be True . . . .

It probably isn’t. And in this case, it wasn’t. My good friend Jim Wilson alerted me to an Arts and Crafts bookcase in an Asheville thrift shop last week, just a few days after the Arts and Crafts Conference. He knew it wasn’t a Stickley,…

Avoiding Auction Remorse

It almost happened to me again last week. Even with nearly fifty years of experience, I came within the flick of a finger of bringing home something I would have regretted the next morning. (No, not another dog.) A link to a local auctioneer’s…

Final Conference Report

It’s almost hard to know where to start. Like the two wings on the historic Grove Park Inn, the National Arts and Crafts Conference has always had two major components:  the educational elements and the selling shows. And the two components…

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