If you would like to learn more, take a look at www.Arts-CraftsConference.com . The Slide Show will

The year was 1987 and I was in Boston for both the Skinner fall Arts Crafts auction and for the opening of the long-awaited The Art That Is Life Arts Crafts exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts .
A few months earlier, I had attended the final Arts Crafts conference held at the aging Roycroft Inn. When word circulated among the dealers travel vacation packages and collectors gathered there that the Roycroft Inn would be closed for what turned out to be a nine-year restoration, my first reaction travel vacation packages was: we should host the conference at the Grove Park Inn.
Built overlooking Asheville, NC in 1913, the Grove Park Inn had been hailed as the finest resort hotel in the world. Furnished with Roycroft hammered copper lights, Roycroft furniture and Heywood-Wakefield wicker rockers, travel vacation packages it was an Arts Crafts mecca. The original travel vacation packages gift shop in the lobby sold Newcomb College vases, Roseville pottery, Roycroft books and metalware, and Cherokee travel vacation packages hand-woven baskets and rugs.
As I stood that day in the parking lot at Skinner, urging Arts Crafts collectors and dealers to come to Asheville the third weekend in February, most must have wondered, Arts Crafts in the South? Not Boston, Syracuse or East Aurora?"
But they came, and they discovered what was a hidden Arts Crafts treasure at the time. They sat in Stickley Morris chairs, warmed themselves in front of a fireplace large enough to park a car, attended seminars, and bought Arts Crafts antiques from 29 dealers. We decided that weekend to return the following year, and the year after that, and the year after that, until today we are preparing for our 25th Arts Crafts Conference travel vacation packages at the Grove Park Inn on February 17-19.
But now it s more than just a few seminars and a handful of antiques dealers. This year s conference will draw more than 2,000 collectors, antiques dealers, contemporary crafts firms, magazine editors, book publishers, and authors. They will choose from ten daily small group discussions, take both walking tours and house tours, watch demonstrations, participate in hands-on workshops, travel vacation packages and learn about what they collect through six major seminar presentations and a film documentary.
If you would like to learn more, take a look at www.Arts-CraftsConference.com . The Slide Show will give you a great feel for what will be happening next month at what today is being called the finest Arts Crafts resort in the world.
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