A Walk in the Woods
It was a sunny but cold, windy afternoon last week when we wrapped up filming a segment for "This Old House" in Concord, Massachusetts. I stood outside the studio and knew I had a tough decision: make a sprint for the airport and go on standby…
Asking “Why?”
Well, three weeks from now Alex and I will begin our annual migration from our office here above my garage in the country to the historic Grove Park Inn overlooking Asheville, bringing with us truckloads of conference catalogs, posters, signs,…
Charting the Trends
As the countdown to next month's national Arts and Crafts Conference and Shows continues, the thirty-day mark gives me an opportunity to make a first assessment of the trends that begin to surface this time each year.
While I leave the technical…
The Printed Poster: An Arts & Crafts Tradition
While furniture and art pottery often steal the show, we cannot forget that the Arts and Crafts movement in America was launched in 1895 at a printing press inside Elbert Hubbard's drafty barn in East Aurora, where it was really, really cold…
The Roycroft Campus in 1986
As word came down from East Aurora that Christine Peters is stepping down from her post as executive director of the Roycroft Campus Corporation, I could not help but think back to my first journey to the Roycroft Campus in 1986. Compared…
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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.