Nancy Thorn is a founding and current member of the Preservation Artisans Guild Board, as well as participating member of the Guild. Gilding since 1974, Nancy founded her company Gold …
Karla Pearlstein’s Cherry House Restoration Project
How much do you know about Preservation Artisans Guild founder Karla Pearlstein‘s preservation and restoration projects around our state? Here’s a beautiful story about one of Karla’s local rescue projects. You’ll notice many …
Fashion on the Edge of Change: A Fashion Show for Historians and Period Enthusiasts
Have you ever wondered what happened between the Victorian Age and the Roaring 20s that so drastically changed the way women dressed – forever? That’s exactly what the Preservation Artisans …
Palm Springs Hosts Modernism Week
Palm Springs, CA — the famed desert resort 100 miles east of Los Angeles — has reinvented itself as a hip, retro-chic tourist destination playing upon its legacy of modern-era …
Preservation Artisans Guild Member Feature: Bolling & Company
Bo Sullivan grew up in a 200-year-old house in a 300-year old-town that had been forgotten by time. The son of a preservationist/antique dealer and a scientist-turned-old-time-hardware-store-owner, Bo spent his teen-age years digging up …
Preservation Artisans Guild Field Trip to Monitor Mills
We hope you enjoy this wonderful video of our time spent with PAG member Donovan Harding last weekend for the Spring Field Trip. Donovan gave us a tour of his …
On the Trail of Poirot: Art Moderne London in the 1930s
Photos by Jack Bookwalter Bookwalter was in England this summer on the trail of Poirot. In the 1990s, the BBC filmed the Poirot Mystery series based on the Agatha Christie …
Preservation Artisans Guild Member Feature: Lee Littlewood | Lee’s Better Letters
For our latest installment of the Preservation Artisans Guild Member Feature Series, Lee Littlewood of Lee’s Better Letters participated in a fun Q & A about his Portland-based hand-lettering and …
VIDEO: The State of Demolitions in Portland
WATCH: A video recap from Brandon Spencer-Hartle‘s presentation for the Preservation Artisans Guild at Old Portland, Hardware & Architectural, shedding light on the state of demolitions in Portland, Oregon (and …
Preservation Artisans Guild Member Feature: Deann Holtz | Portland Art Framing
A charter member of the Preservation Artisans Guild, Deann Holtz of Portland Art Framing has nearly twenty years of hands-on experience in the art and custom framing industry as well …