Getting Around the Grove Park Inn
With the National Arts and Crafts Conference just two months away, we’re getting questions about the differences between the three sections of the hotel. This seems like a good time, then, to quickly review just how the 510-room Grove Park…
Of Pigments and Printer’s Ink
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 University of Utah. Fortunately, it didn’t take much to convince Eric to let his lasers cool in the lab over…
Asheville’s “Other” Attraction
I received a phone call last week from a couple who will be attending the Arts and Crafts Conference at the Grove Park Inn for the first time this coming February.
“We’ve known about it for years,” she explained, “but we had to wait…
A Mystery Mark
As you might recall from some of my previous columns, one of my interests, both historically and as a collector, is Biltmore Estate Industries. It was a true Arts and Crafts cottage industry that in 1901 actually began in a small cottage in…
There’s Something in a Name…
When my friend Robert Hause, a combination skilled woodworker and antiques dealer who owns Art of the Craft in Wilmington, N.C., called me the other morning, the subject turned, as it invariably does, to furniture. And for whatever reason,…
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