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…
A Sticky Situation
When I lived in Iowa City and was first introduced to the Arts & Crafts movement, I discovered that the University of Iowa Art Museum had a massive Frank Lloyd Wright oak library table in their ground floor foyer. One day when I was just…
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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.