New Arts & Crafts Website adds timeliness to its vibrant, user-friendly format Creator Bruce Johnson is founder of the country’s largest A&C gathering
By Ann Jarmusch
The virtual village where Arts & Crafts lovers dwell got a little cozier at the dawn of this decade, and you’re invited to be part of it. That’s because Bruce Johnson – Arts & Crafts expert, author, craftsman and founder of the nation’s largest Arts & Crafts gathering — has launched a vibrant, [...]
The tales tiles tell
Gather round the fire, friends, and admire the works of Craftsman artisans of yesteryear and today
By Ann Jarmusch
Even in San Diego, where winter is a whisper of its true self, we long to sit by the fire with a good book or with family and friends gathered ’round. Many Craftsman bungalows and Spanish Revival beauties [...]
Pasadena Heritage Tour Shows Off Craftsman Homes at their Best
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Tour goers come away with design inspirations for future projects
By Kris Grant
You might call it the mother lode of design ideas for aficionados of everything Craftsman.
Pasadena is one of the, if not the, showplaces for Craftsman design in the United States, the location where architects William and Henry Greene set up shop, where Ernest Batchelder [...]
Art Glass Guild explores the seductive beauty and flow of art glass
By Ann Jarmusch
Wander around Spanish Village’s art displays in Balboa Park and eventually you’ll find sparkling Studio 25. It’s the cheerful, colorful home of the Art Glass Guild, where natural light pours into skylights to illuminate the gleaming works of 35 members.
Energy flows here. Color and curves entrance the eye.
“I’ve always found glass to be [...]
Plein Air Painting
“All art-loving people love nature first.”
— Charles Sumner Greene, Arts and Crafts architect
Story by Ann Jarmusch
Plein air paintings have always been at home in Arts and Crafts bungalows, where domesticity and reverence for nature are as intertwined as a William Morris textile design. Whether of the same vintage as the bungalow where they hang or [...]
