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…
Mrs. Zamansky’s Bookcase
You know you've been collecting Arts & Crafts for a long time when you can no longer pick out any piece in your home and remember precisely when, where and how you bought it.
Did that tabouret come from Crazy Eddie's barn, or was it from…
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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.