A Hidden Gem – With Its Own Secrets
In 1912, when Frederick Loring Seely was designing the original 150-room Grove Park Inn, he was faced with a dilemma: how to give every guest room a panoramic view of the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains?
His solution created one of the…
Stories Never Told
Behind every successful celebrity there is a hard-working publicist.
While we tend to put our Arts and Crafts heroes on pedestals, there were, in fact, very few of whom in their lifetimes would have been called celebrities. When they did…
831 Missed Opportunities
Over the course of the past 28 National Arts and Crafts Conferences at the Grove Park Inn, I have sat in the back of the room next to the audio-visual team for all 196 seminar presentations.
I should be a lot smarter, but too often I was…
Something in the Mail for You
I’ll leave it to someone more qualified than me to write an appropriate Christmas column, for around here for the past 28 years the two weeks before Christmas have been more consumed with preparing the ten-page Pre-Conference Packet than…
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…
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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.