Project Quail
As you well know, anyone who thinks business travel is exciting spends most of their time at home.
But if there is one thing sitting in an airport in Salt Lake City, waiting for a pilot to arrive from Boston can do, is give you time to make…
Count No Day Lost
This week's column was supposed to be about my visit to F. Scott Fitzgerald's boyhood home in St. Paul, a side trip I had planned for last Tuesday afternoon, a few hours after leading a Minwax wood finishing workshop that morning in Minneapolis.…
Starting Over
My trip to Philadelphia for the annual convention of the American Art Pottery Association is still fresh in my mind a week later. If you saw my column last week, you know that I went to the Friday afternoon benefit auction only intending to…
A Night in Philly, Another New Addiction
As you have no doubt discovered, Saturday mornings often come with a few regrets, some accompanied by an internal sledgehammer pounding on one of our frontal lobes. When I awoke in a Philadelphia hotel room this past Saturday morning during…
Green Pots and Familiar Friends
No one who has followed by column here for very long has any doubt that I am first and foremost an Arts & Crafts furniture collector. I love wood. I love working with it, I love sitting in it, I love looking at it. And sometimes I even…
About Us
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.