Archives for October, 2008
Side-Lacing Adelaide
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Article by Elizabeth Semmelhack
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ne day in the summer of 2004, the Bata Shoe Museum received a phone call from Peaks Island, Maine. The woman calling was...
Craft, Space and Interior Design, 1855-2005
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Article by Chloë Catán
Craft, Space and Interior Design, 1855-2005
Eds. Sandra Alfoldy and Janice Helland
Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7546-5706-4 US $99.95
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he collected essays in...
Deux Terroirs – Don Beaubier’s Autobiography in Silver & Gems
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Article by Gloria Hickey
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magine you are flying into the Auvergne region of Central France. Out of your plane window you can see the ancient volcanoes and farm...
Gilles Beaugrand, De Ferronnier à Orfèvre
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Article by Paul Bourassa
G
illes Beaugrand (Montréal, 1906 – Laval, 2005) est diplômé de l’École des beaux-arts de Montréal, en 1928. Boursier de la Province, il étudie...
A Canadian Cigar Box Sampler
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Article by Sheldon Posen
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n 1893, six men from Zorra Township in south-western Ontario, veterans of the region’s famed Highland Games, beat all comers at the Chicago...