By Fred Albert

Ann and André Chaves were driving through Los Angeles 31 years ago when they spied some chairs sitting in front of an antiques shop. "Hey, this guy's selling Scandinavian furniture!" André exclaimed, pulling over to take a closer look.

The dealer, Gary Booth, ushered the pair into his shop and tactfully explained that the pieces were not Scandinavian, but were, in fact, Arts and Crafts. Then he spent the next half hour discussing the history and hallmarks of the movement. "He essentially gave us a lecture on Arts and Crafts furniture," recalls André, with a bemused smile. The couple left Booth's shop with an L. & J.G. Stickley rocker— and a passion for the Arts and Crafts movement that has shaped their personal and professional lives ever since.

Today, Arts and Crafts furniture fills nearly every room of the pair's 9,800-square-foot Pasadena home, and Ann and André are the ones giving the lectures: she, as an authority on Arts and Crafts needlework and proprietor of Inglenook Textiles, and he as an Arts and Crafts historian and operator of Clinker Press, a letterpress specializing in Arts and Crafts books, which he maintains when not pursuing his day job as a hand surgeon… Subscribe to read the entire article.