In addition, to Candace Wheeler’s How to Make Rugs, the Byrdcliffe Library also contained a copy of her privately published Annals of Onteora, which details how she created an Arts Colony in Tannersville frequented by such distinguished guests as Mark Twain, Mary Mapes Dodge, and Maude Adams, the actress for whom J.M. Barrie created the […]
What They Read at Byrdcliffe: Candace Wheeler and the Annals of Onteora
Ticetonyk was also the home of the great estate of one of New York’s most prominent self-made millionaires: Richard Hellmann – of yes, that Hellmann fame. The venture currently known as the Onteora Mountain House was once the summer retreat of an immigrant who parlayed his marriage to the daughter of a New York City delicatessen owner into a condiment empire that sold his ready-made mayonnaise at first in bulk to other stores, and then to consumers, in clear glass jars that could be reused for home canning at the cost of a 1 cent rubber rung. So successful was the venture that Hellmann was the author of not one, but two, invaluable handbooks. Yes, the second one does appear to be the shape of a jar of mayonnaise.
What I Hope They Never Read at Byrdcliffe
And behold my birthday surprise from George! Three lovely books, all with Byrdcliffe bookplates. First up, a first edition of How to Make Rugs, by Candace Wheeler. Candace Wheeler was the dean of American interior design, a partner of Louis Comfort Tiffany, in Tiffany and Wheeler, whose most prestigious assignments included the Veterans’ Room of
What they Read at Byrdcliffe: Happy Birthday to Me!
My own journey collecting items from the Byrdcliffe library began when I found a leather-bound set of Dryden offered on the web, complete with Byrdcliffe bookplate. Which immediately created a mystery. How could a set whose title paged clearly stated that it was published in 1821 find itself in the collection of a collector who
What They Read at Byrdcliffe — or Of Research And Rabbit Holes II
They say not to judge a book by its cover, but I would argue that judging a book by its title is a whole different thing. Trust me, I’m not one to resist a title like Edward Everett Hale’s Practical Christianity Applied to the Manufacture of Woolens. It was, in fact, the first book I
According to local legend, the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony was born when Bolton Brown, Hervey White, and Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead chose Woodstock, N.Y. to build their utopian Arts and Crafts community – mostly because the light was judged to be exactly the same as that of Provence. Construction began in the winter of 1902, and by
What They Read At Byrdcliffe: Welcome to my New Blog
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