A Walk on the Mild Side
We fellow Arts and Crafts enthusiasts have often been accused -- and rightly so - of fostering a severe case of tunnel vision. We have to remind ourselves that the Arts and Crafts movement encompassed more than just hand-craftsmanship. Early…
A One Hundred Year Journey
It began in East Aurora, New York, in the Roycroft Copper shop, where in 1913 foreman Victor Toothaker designed the hammered copper lighting fixtures for the Grove Park Inn being constructed on Sunset Mountain overlooking Asheville, North…
Tracking Down a Tragic Couple
I knew where it was at, I thought, but after nearly an hour driving around Rockville, Maryland, I wasn't sure I was ever going to find it.
But I wasn't going to quit.
Just as I had read, it was totally surrounded and nearly obscured by gleaming,…
Twilight Memories of the Roycroft Campus
I am writing this week's column from the Robert Browning room on the third floor of the historic Roycroft Inn in East Aurora, New York. It is near the end of what has been a beautiful June day: clear blue skies, lush maple trees shading the…
Statues, Plaques and Trash Cans
After leaving East Aurora two weeks ago, I drove east for a couple of hours until I reached Syracuse, a city best known to Arts and Crafts devotees as the birthplace of Craftsman furniture. It was in Syracuse in 1901 that Gustav Stickley first…
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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.