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Barbara Rhines
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- Lincoln, MA
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- Tell us about yourself:
- I write about decorating, houses, and real-estate issues. My house obsession started with doll house furniture in kindergarten. (I still have it all.) I'm a long-time collector of Arts and Crafts but my research and collecting is moving through the 20th century. I currently live in a 1940s International Style house and am trying to stay true to that era -- so don't tempt me with modern styles from the 1960s! I'm not there yet.
- Tell us about your old-house experiences and dreams:
- My biggest accomplishment was restoring a fire-damaged Bauhaus-style house. A sane person would have torn down the cinderblock shell but I love its blocky strength. This is a house that will take years to finish, and that's okay. Luckily I'm not a perfectionist and can live with bathrooms that are "early gas station."
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Thank you for taking the time to answer my recent inquiry. I have used a heat gun to strip paint from interior/exterior trim and it does scorch on occasion even with the most careful of efforts -- so I'd be more than a bit leery to use it on a rare Roycroft chair.
I will look over the websites/contacts you mention and see what turns up.
Regards,
Bill
I read your article "A Collector's Notebook" in the January-February OHJ and hope you can help me. I have a Roycroft side chair that was my great aunt's that she unfortunately painted (leather seat, hammered nails and all) in white enamel -- she even added decals for that special 1940s touch!
(With a bit of research, I believe that one could prove the chair's provenance goes back to the Listeman family in Boston. A family that was influential in founding the Boston Symphony.)
I would like to know more about the chair, its value, and where to seek restoration of this piece -- if indeed it is worth restoring. Do you have any insight or direction for me? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Bill Roberts
Neillsville, WI
biljen@tds.net