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Protected: COLOR IS ITS ORNAMENT
Read more: Protected: COLOR IS ITS ORNAMENTThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Greene & Greene at Princeton
Read more: Greene & Greene at PrincetonThe Arts & Crafts world marked an important anniversary in 2022. It’s been fifty years since the first milestone exhibition dedicated to the Arts & Crafts movement brought together significant furniture
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DOOR OF HOPE DOLLS
Read more: DOOR OF HOPE DOLLSUpstairs at the Gamble House, two curio cabinets contain many small objects collected by the Gamble family on their 1908 trip to Japan, China and Korea.
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Edith Claypole
Read more: Edith ClaypoleWhen Edith Claypole (1870-1915) received her M.D. degree from the Medical College of the University of Southern California in June 1904, she was living in her Greene and Greene bungalow at 50 South Grand Avenue in Pasadena.
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A Friendly Correspondence
Read more: A Friendly CorrespondenceLucretia Garfield’s correspondence with Charles Greene begins in May 1903, after she had spent some months in Pasadena.
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THE GOULD HOUSE: A HENRY GREENE DESIGN
Read more: THE GOULD HOUSE: A HENRY GREENE DESIGNIn 1923 the Goulds invited Henry Greene to spend a weekend with them on their ranch in Ventura County. Over the next six months he spent many days with the family getting acquainted with their personal tastes and with their country lifestyle.
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Special Gifts Permit Us To Do Special Things
Read more: Special Gifts Permit Us To Do Special ThingsAs this most eventful year comes to a close, I can’t help but focus on two things: first, how lucky we are in this community to have a place and a now fully mature institution such as the Gamble House in our midst, and second how important it is that such places have the broad…
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ALTADENA’S FAMOUS MOUNT LOWE RAILWAY
Read more: ALTADENA’S FAMOUS MOUNT LOWE RAILWAYWhen Aunt Julia sat on her sleeping porch to enjoy the warm winter sun, she had a spectacular view of one of Southern California’s most popular tourist attractions of the day: the Mt. Lowe Railway.
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STICKLEY: A DESK CHAIR AND A COMPANY
Read more: STICKLEY: A DESK CHAIR AND A COMPANYThe maker of the new Armless Swivel Office Chair #89-3295 that is in Mr. Gamble’s den is L.&J.G. Stickley. The chair is one of the designs the company created when it began offering its Mission line of Arts & Crafts furniture in 1989.
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THE ALL-NEW 1915 RAUCH AND LANG ELECTRIC
Read more: THE ALL-NEW 1915 RAUCH AND LANG ELECTRICDuring some recent conversations with Anne Mallek she mentioned that in 1909, David Gamble notes among his assets one “Electric.” Meaning an electric automobile. By 1912, Mary Gamble refers to a “new” electric car a Rauch and Lang, which will be coming in January.
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