February Calendar

FEB. 19-21
ARTS & CRAFTS CONFERENCE
GROVE PARK INN
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
The 22nd annual Arts & Crafts Conference, organized by conference director Bruce Johnson, will include seminar speakers, hands-on workshops, daily discussion groups, walking tours and house tours, demonstrations, educational exhibits and booths containing some of the leading Arts & Crafts antiques dealers, artists and artisans. “Every aspect of [...]

Craftsman Events December 2009

ART EXCURSION: SAN DIEGO MID-CENTURY MODERN HOME TOUR
DEC. 12
Experience San Diego Modernism as reflected in the region’s art, architecture and design in this home tour sponsored by the Mingei International Museum. Visit homes, from Mt. Helix to the beach, designed by stellar local architects including Lloyd Ruocco, Loch Crane and John Mock, as well as [...]

Craftsman Calendar • November

RARE IRVING GILL FURNITURE
ON DISPLAY AT MARSTON HOUSE, BALBOA PARK
Redwood furniture designed a century ago by Irving J. Gill, San Diego’s foremost modernist architect, is on public view together for the first time at the recently reopened Marston House Museum and Gardens in Balboa Park. 

A simple bed, a dining room server, three chairs with [...]

Craftsman Calendar of Events • October

FALL LECTURE SERIES
LA JOLLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OCT. 1 and 22
La Jolla Historical Society’s fall lecture series features two programs in October. Ted Bosley, director of the Gamble House in Pasadena, lectures on Oct. 1 on “Greene & Greene and the English Arts & Crafts in San Diego.” The lecture is at 6 p.m. in Wisteria Cottage. [...]