Affordable Arts & Crafts Mark Weekend Auction

What a difference a few months can make.

Less than three months after their record-breaking sale featuring several rare examples from Stephen Gray’s collection, John Toomey and Don Treadway’s March 7th Arts & Crafts auction in Oak Park, Illinois, took a decidedly different turn.

In place of early, pristine Gustav Stickley furniture and rare lighting, they assembled an auction that appeared to have targeted beginning collectors. Setting...

Motawi Tile Marks Robie House Centennial

Motawi Tileworks is joining the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Robie House in Chicago.

Designed for his client Frederick C. Robie in 1908 and completed in 1910, this residence is considered one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture. With gravity-defying overhangs, open spaces and continuous bands of art glass accented in gold and amber,...

Dealing With an Arts & Crafts Crawlspace

Not everything in our wonderful Arts & Crafts cottages and bungalows is all fireplaces, woodwork, tiles and inglenooks. Down below, beneath those mellow oak floorboards, you may have a crawlspace - that low, dark, dank and dirty piece of real estate lurking under your house.

While owners of new houses may never have experienced the sensation of lying on their backs in a puddle of mud in a cramped, black, spider-infested tunnel while trying to install...

A Little Journey To the Roycroft Campus

It is a story myths are made of.

A young corporate executive cashes in his entire stockholdings, leaps off the corporate ladder to pursue his dream of becoming a writer and starts his own publishing company in a drafty horse barn. He develops the Midas touch, expanding his business by hiring talented staff members, developing new marketing techniques and becoming a national celebrity.

But, like a figure in a Greek tragedy, he has his Achilles heel....