We don't hear too much about the craftspeople that created a brand new, authentic style of simple furniture, pottery, glasswork, and other crafts based on traditional techniques and termed Arts and ...
When we think of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States, Brooklyn seldom comes to mind as a hotbed of A&C style. We think of suburban bungalows, the Midwest and California, not the city.
Call it the Arts and Crafts Revival, Part 2. In the 1980s, the cleanlined, spare, simple style that was born in the late l9th and early 20th Century made a comeback–Hollywood style. The rich and ...
In the late 1980s, Stickley Furniture Co. began reproducing Mission style furniture, using some of the original designs from the Stickley brothers. (Courtesy of Stickley Furntiture Co. ) At the turn ...
Art, craft, history and lifestyle all intersect in this multifaceted exhibit at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry. Curated by Lawrence Kreisman, of Historic Seattle, and Glenn Mason, co-owner of ...
RIT’s visual-art programs enjoy a long and distinguished history, starting with the first mechanical drawing class in 1885 at what was then called the Mechanics Institute. A few years later, at the ...
Last December a telephone bidder bought an oak-and-wrought-iron sideboard created by cabinetmaker Gustav Stickley for the interior of Stickley`s home in Syracuse, N.Y., just after the turn of the ...
Arts and Crafts furniture was in style from the late 19th to the early 20th century. It was very different from the ornate styles of the earlier Victorian era. It had the advantage of new tools and ...
Oakland tile setter Riley Doty remembers his first trip through the San Francisco Marina District in the late '70s. Doty, who had fallen in love with the ceramic medium during his teens in New York ...
An investment must be continually supported to fulfill its ultimate potential. Early in the 2000s, St. Petersburg, Florida, began making a major investment in the arts. That investment has seen the ...