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this month’s ebay finds
Plenty of interesting furniture, metalwork, glass & more on Ebay this month, with more than the usual number of small gift items available:
- very detailed spindle-sided dollhouse furniture
- attractive new prairie box chair, from craftsman Dale Martin
- Guthrie oak sideboard
- antique Craftsman child’s rocker
- contemporary Stickley #89-1128A stereo cabinet
- enormous contemporary corner desk / office set
- attractive 1907 Limbert glass-front china cabinet
- a very unique sideboard / dental cabinet, c 1910
- pretty 1906 Limbert daybed with spade cutout
- Limbert book & letter holder, c 1910
- pair of Roycroft copper bookends
- inexpensive Roycroft copper letterholder
- Roycroft hammered copper trays, set of three
- tapered form Roycroft vase, hammered copper with rare nickel patina
- Grueby Faience tall green vase
- pretty yellow and green vase by Scott Draves formerly of Ephraim Faience
- Teco matte green buttressed vase
- contemporary oak wall mirror with shelf
- signed Gustav Stickley rocker with leather seat
- attractive slat-back A&C armchair
- Mission style bench salvaged from railroad station
- Stickley Bros. drop-front desk #6534, circa 1903
- chest of drawers, Gustav Stickley red label
- Craftsman secretary, unique design
- contemporary wood and mica ceiling-mount light fixture
- contemporary wood and mica lamp by same designer as above
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Mission Hills Development in Northern California

"Mission Hills Development builds finer homes that
are based on the Arts and Crafts movement from the early 1900’s.
Featured architects are Henry and Charles Greene of Pasadena, CA.,
circa 1900 to 1920."
These are indeed "finer" homes – finer, by far, than most of the new development I see, and at first glace at least look to be far better designed and constructed than even the chicest McMansion.
Sebastopol, CA – "the World in upheaval" is the site of Mission Hills
Development’s current project. Situated on 5 acres in a valley between
rolling hills, this 6200 square foot house is part Gamble House and
part Blacker House. Build with the same detail as these two famous
Greene & Greene homes in Southern California, it encompasses five
different hardwoods for its central hallways and grand rooms.
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Ebay roundup, October 2007, part 1
This month, there are more knicknacks than you can shake even the fanciest stick at over on the mother of all online auction sites. The following aren’t necessarily excellent deals, but everything here is at least interesting.
As usual, I’m avoiding everything labeled misleadingly (i.e., "Roycroft era," "Stickley style," "maybe Stickley?," etc. … I’ll have plenty more up next week and the week after.
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recent Craftsman kitchen remodels on Flickr
My constant urging to check Flickr out for design ideas is probably getting pretty old at this point – sorry about that. Here are three attractive working kitchens, wholly or partially documented in photographs on Flickr:
- custom kitchen by William Pepper
- full-on kitchen remodel with some really beautiful tile
- this kitchen remodel included a mix of modern & classic cabinetry, and some really wild mosaic tile
- KittyBitty’s new kitchen includes this backsplash, attractive cabinetry, and a wall-full of appliances
- this warm kitchen includes some neat wide plank flooring
- using the sink as a barrier between two levels of countertop was a unique idea
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Payson Denny Architects in Santa Monica, CA

Ken Payson is an architect in the Santa Monica area (his firm, Payson Denny, also has an office in Santa Fe NM) who mainly works on residential projects. While Payson Denny do build many modern / modernist homes, they have sometimes produced very attractive and historically-accurate Craftsman structures; they’ve also been responsible for some really stunning restorations and remodels of historic structures throughout the Los Angeles area.
We’ve created a small Flickr set with a few high-res images of these recent projects.
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more Los Angeles bungalows

As a gift to the hundreds of visitors streaming in from Curbed today, I give you a slideshow of Craftsman bungalows in Los Angeles, taken from Flickr:

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Jim Weber: Victorian & Craftsman homes in Los Angeles

Real estate agent Jim Weber deals very specifically in historic Victorian & Craftsman homes throughout the Los Angeles region. His website not only includes links to his current listings, it also has tips for buying and selling historic homes, and a few resources for folks who appreciate these pretty old houses (they should put us up on that list, too!).
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Arts & Crafts gems from the New York Times’ archives
The New York Times recently decided to open up much of their historic archives for free, finally realizing that the ad revenue generated by increased access is far higher than what they could make in fees or subscriptions. As a result, there are plenty of interesting articles suddenly available to all of us that we’d have had to pay for in the past. I spent the morning searching for various Arts & Crafts related keywords, and here’s what I turned up:
- R. W. Apple’s Journeys column on Berkeley, California, with quite a bit on Maybeck and other local architects and artists;
- review of the 1997 Boston Arts & Crafts exhibit at Wellesley college;
- ‘travel advisory’ on Greene & Greene’s wonderful 1909 Thorsen House in Berkeley;
- profile of a Sacramento-area family who did an extensive green remodel of their Craftsman bunglaow;
- article on the continued popularity of Rookwood pottery;
- visiting the Grove Park Inn, the site of Asheville NC’s annual Arts & Crafts conference & show;
- Eagle Rock, Mount Washington and Highland Park: NE Los Angeles’ Craftsman hideaways;
- 36 house in Pasadena, California’s most (famous) bungalow-centric town;
- Spanish Colonial Revival "fixer-upper" in Mar Vista, CA;
- Arts / Artifacts column on California’ contributions to the Arts & Crafts Movement;
- four interesting architecture-centric walking tours in San Francisco;
- Living In Forest Hill, NJ – an unlikely enclave of Arts & Crafts architecture; and
- a Maybeck home is sold in 2003 – but the focus here is the wonderful garden.
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bits & pieces on ebay, September 25 2007
I’m trying to keep to my policy of only including items here that are listed honestly – i.e., not labeled "Stickley-era," "possibly Roycroft," etc.
These are mostly unsigned items, either underpriced or honestly priced in my opinion (although I did include a few interesting signed items, too). While there were plenty of other good deals this week, many were expiring today or tomorrow, so I didn’t include those.
furniture
- high-backed Stickley rocker
- slat-back/arm bench with leather seat
- small bookcase / magazine rack
- sofa table with interesting tenon detail
- Limbert daybed with spade / leaf cutout
- Limbert child’s rocker with original seat
- light wood wall shelves
ceramics
- matte green hanging flowerpot
- Seiz Pottery doorbell
- matte blue Zanesville bowl
- pink & green Fulper vase
- nautilus shell motif tile in oak frame
- unsigned green glossy low bowl
- lot of 40 Mexican talavera tiles, 4×4, floral design
metal
- pair of oak and green glass table lamps
- Limbert lamp base in hammered brass
- copper log box with oak tree motif
- brass inkwell
- desk tray in copper with silver inlay
- hammered copper humidor
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Design Works Architecture, Pittsford New York

Design Works Architecture specializes in timber frame structures – resort buildings, grand mountain estates, big giant Craftsman palaces – as well as renovations of similar types of buildings. Given their location in woody upstate New York (just east of Rochester, near the Canada border) this is not surprising; there’s a very strong Craftsman influence in the area, with the Roycrofters just down the road in East Aurora.
Principal Charles Smith started the firm just a few years ago, after a history of working with other architects in the New York City area; he started out specializing on the "adaptive re-use of under-utilized structures" and that and his interest in historic renovation paved the way for his current emphasis on the Craftsman style (take a look at the "boat house," a rather unassuming name for a big, beautiful structure, which won an AIA award in 2007). His staff – project managers, architects, interior designers and construction specialists – all seem to be just as dedicated to this site-specific aesthetic, and it really shows in their work.
We’ve created a Flickr set of images of those projects of theirs that fit most firmly within the Craftsman aesthetic – take a look.
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