Moss: The Lamps That Spin

Art Deco, Clocks, Donald-Brian Johnson, Features, Fountains, Gerald "Gerry" Moss, Glass Shades, Leslie Piña, Modern Design, Moss Lamp, Moss Manufacturing Company, Music Boxes, Plexiglas, Radios, Spinning Figures, Spun Glass

Story by Donald-Brian Johnson - Photos by Leslie Piña Once seen, never forgotten - that's a Moss lamp! These Plexiglas marvels first cast their unique glow on households of the ...

Charles and Ray Eames: Icons of Mid-Century Modern Design

Annabel Keenan, Bauhaus, chairs, Charles and Ray Eames, Crafting, Crafts, Craftsmanship, Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Eames Design, Features, Furnature, Mid-Century Deisgn, Time Magazine, Wienter Werkstätte

By Annabel Keenan Often when discussing design, scholars and collectors alike describe objects and their makers as influential. While there are undeniably certain designs that impact trends in taste, there ...

The Life, Legacy, and Furniture of George Nakashima

Architecture, Craftsmanship, Features, furniture, George Nakashima, Japan, Legacy, Mike McLeod, Mira Nakashima, MIT, Philosophy

...and a Conversation with Mira Nakashima by Mike McLeod George Nakashima's philosophy reflected his style of craftsmanship: earthy, unexpected, creative, often symmetrical and asymmetrical in the same piece of furniture, ...

What Collectors Should Know About Mid-Century Modernisms' Many Looks

Alexander Calder, Anne Gilbert, Childrens Mobiles, Features, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Mid-Century Modernism, Modernism, Moving Sculpture, toys

By Anne Gilbert Change was blowing in the wind after World War II. Everything was new thanks to scientists, designers and a generation yearning for something different. Today the results ...

Inuit Sculpture

Art, Autumn, Canadian, Cold-weather, Collectibles, Eskimo, Features, Intuit, Inuk, Prehistoric, Sarah P. Turnbaugh, Sculpture, Stone Carving, The People, William A. Turnbaugh

By Sarah P. Turnbaugh Photos by William A. Turnbaugh As crisp cooler days and long evenings usher in autumn, our thoughts turn to cold-weather activities, collectibles, and art. Stone sculptures ...

There Once was a Basket from Nantucket

Basket, Basket Making, Basket Weaving, Basketry, Colonists, Erica Lome, Features, Nantucket, Native Americans, New England, Wampanoag

By Erica Lome Basket making is one of the earliest and most prevalent forms of folk art in the United States. First developed by Native Americans and later adopted by ...

Folk Art Frenzy

Advertising, American, Art, David Moore, decorative, Eclectic, Features, Fine Art, folk art, Outsider, Pioneer, Utilitarian, Waterman Antiques, Wikipedia

by David Moore of Waterman Antiques Everyone I talk with has their own interpretation as to what great Folk Art is. Wikipedia states "In contrast to fine art, folk art ...

Bill Traylor: Unfiltered

African American art, American Culture, Art, artists, Bill Traylor, Black Folk Art, Features, Susan Baerwald, The Corcoran Gallery, Thornton Dial, William Edmonson, William Hawkins

By Susan Baerwald In the history of early American culture, there is little specific mention of African American Art. We are aware of some of the early quilts by Harriet ...

Tool Blocks

Antiques, Art Supplies, Cameras, Features, Firefighters, Forgotten Technology, Mütter Museum, New York City Fire Museum, NYC, Profession, Technology, The Camera Heritage Museum, Tools

Every profession has its tools, which evolve and refine to keep pace with technology and the changing needs of the trade. Here are examples of four different vocations and the ...

The Collectability and Usability of Antique Tools

Antique Tools, Chippendale, Features, Hummels, Ming Vase, Monet, Patrick Leach, Snap-On, Supertool.com, Toolbox, Tools, Used Tools

by Patrick Leach Renowned Connoisseur of Antique Tools, Owner of Supertool.com featuring “Patrick’s Blood and Gore,” and Purveyor of Fine Used Tools It’s easy to collect tools. They are all ...

From Forge and Furnace

Andirons, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Erik Goldstein, Features, Forge and Furnace, hinges, iron, Mechanical Arts and Numismatics, Stoves, weathervanes

A Celebration of Early American Iron by Erik Goldstein, Curator of Mechanical Arts and Numismatics, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation The upcoming exhibition From Forge and Furnace: A Celebration of Early American ...

A New Nation

American Life, Erica Lome, Features, History, Pilgrim Era, Plymoth Colony, Plymoth Rock, The New World, Tools

Tools and American Life in the Pilgrim Era By Erica Lome Almost four hundred years ago, Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. This story is often told in classrooms, museums, and ...

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