"At The Grove Park Inn, the Arts & Crafts Movement never ended."

For the past twenty years Arts and Crafts enthusiasts - including new collectors, veterans, curators, craftspersons, authors, builders, architects, designers, editors, and bungalow owners - have traveled to the Blue Ridge Mountains and The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa for the annual Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show.

Founded in 1988 by author, collector and former high school English teacher, Bruce Johnson, the Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show has been recognized for nearly two decades for its dedication to the education of the Arts & Crafts collector. Each February Johnson brings to the Grove Park Inn the foremost authorities, authors, dealers, publishers, speakers and craftspersons from across the country - all assembled each year in one historic hotel for one historic weekend. New collectors learn more here in one weekend than they can in an entire year anywhere else. And experienced collectors keep coming back to renew treasured friendships and to increase their knowlege and appreciation for the Arts & crafts movement.

If you had come to The Grove Park Inn in 1913, you could have sat in Roycroft chairs, read under Roycroft chandeliers, relaxed in Old Hickory rockers, and purchased Newcomb, Pisgah, and Roseville pottery, along with Roycroft metalware and books. And, if you come in February, you still can!

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