Arts And Crafts

Lambertville, N.J., population 3,906, is going to be a busy village this weekend. Not only is the Rago Arts & Auction Center offering about 1,000 lots of early-20th-century and modern arts and crafts at a two-day sale there, but Stephenson's Auction, of Southampton, Pa., is conducting an on-site sale Saturday of the real estate and contents of a Victorian home just outside of town and of an adjacent barn that formerly housed River Road Antiques &...

Antiques/Art/Crafts 26th Annual Craft Fair 60 craft tables featuring more than 60 local crafters. Visit & photo ops with Santa, light lunch available, raffle drawing. Sellersville Fire House, 2 North Main St., Sellersville; 215-258-5222. 11/12. 9 am-3 pm. 55th Annual Holiday Fair and Craft Show Event hosted by the Woman's Club of Indian Valley features local crafters and their works. Indian Crest Middle School, 139 Harleysville Tpke., Souderton. 11/12. 9 am-3 pm. 5th Annual Fine Crafts and Art Show Show benefits the Laurel House.

You needn't look far in Philadelphia to find evidence of the Arts and Crafts Movement, that diverse, turn-of-the-century mixture of ideas, ideals and motifs that ranged from medieval to art nouveau and early American to Japanese. It's right at 1424 Chestnut St. at the former Jacob Reed store (now Barnes & Noble), where the production of clothing is depicted in tile mosaics. Or you can walk down to 15th Street and see the spiky lamps and monumental gate made by Samuel Yellin at the Packard Building.

David Rago, the Lambertville specialist in Arts and Crafts collectibles, will be doing what he's best at beginning at 11 a.m. tomorrow with a sale featuring more than 850 lots of art pottery. Of that, 350 lots are from a single collection of Roseville, Weller, Owens and other potteries in the Ohio town of Zanesville. The auction also will include more than 50 Stangl birds as well as Arts and Crafts wrought metal furniture and accessories, some modern items and some Victorian items.

Culturally speaking, most Delaware County roads on Sunday will lead to Lansdowne and Media. That's where thousands of area residents, especially art and music lovers, are expected to view and buy arts and crafts by scores of artists and to enjoy performances by a popular local folksinger, a children's theatrical group, and by students at a classical music school. There will be a variety of culinary delights, too, displayed at bake tables and food booths at both sites. The events are the Lansdowne Cultural Alliance Annual Outdoor Art and Craft Sale and Exhibit at the Twentieth Century Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Ave., and the 24th Annual Media Art Exhibit and Craft Fair along State Street in Media.

Sports clinics, hands-on arts and crafts, interactive play and continuous entertainment highlight the Kids' Stuff Expo at Trenton State College this weekend. Presented by Kids' Stuff Productions in Southern California, the expo features two days of fun and learning designed just for children. For juvenile jocks, the scheduled sports activities include a baseball clinic on how to hit and field, presented by USA Baseball Camp and an exhibition by professional and amateur skateboarders.

How do you describe a perfect 10 in Arts and Crafts furniture? Thomas Maher, a Detroit collector of furniture and accessories from this early modernist movement, says that a perfect 10 is "a rare form, in original finish, signed by the maker; a great design with attention paid to the selection of the wood, and with a good provenance. " Barbra Streisand bought such a rare form on Dec. 10. Bidding by phone from California, she won a Gustav Stickley sideboard for a record $363,000 at Christie's in New York.

The cranberry is king of the Pine Barrens this time of year, and tomorrow and Sunday that fact will be celebrated with music, crafts, food and fun at the "capital" of the Barrens - Chatsworth. Occasion for all the hoopla is the Burlington County town's third annual Cranberry Festival. For the event, the cranberry bogs have been flooded and the "knockers" (paddlewheel boats) are churning the water to make the berries float to the surface. Visitors can see them scooped up and subjected to the "seven bounce test" in processing - those that don't bounce as they fall onto each of seven conveyor belts are removed and ultimately fed to the wild deer of the Barrens.

It is a red, 120-year-old Victorian house on DeKalb Street, near a Cottman Transmission store and across from Franzone's Pizzeria. Within its doors, insulated from the outside world of car grease and fast food, is a quiet parlor of linen and lace, quilted dolls, hand-painted Christmas decorations. This place, just minutes from the King of Prussia malls, is called the Country Angel. It is the brainchild of Ellen Markoski, who envisions that some day it might be part of a quaint antiques village of small shops that would lure lovers of American arts and crafts.

If you are one who sees the Arts and Crafts movement as square wood furniture and curvy everything else, visit David Rago's two-day auction in Lambertville, N.J. The 1,250 lots assembled by Rago, Jerry Cohen and Suzanne Perrault and scheduled to be sold starting at noon today and tomorrow offer not only such headliners as Stickley furniture and Rookwood pottery, but a host of lesser-known names. The diversity of the items also will tell what a complete Arts and Crafts living room makeover might look like, and what it could cost.

Antiques/Art/Crafts 39th Annual Old Pine Church Tag Sale and Neighborhood Festival Rummage sale, bake sale, grill tent, children's activities, musical entertainment & vendors selling pottery, jewelry & collectibles. Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church, 412 Pine St. 5/12. 10 am-4 pm. Art Star Craft Bazaar Over 140 local & national artists present one-of-a-kind, high quality handmade items that reflect the unique & quirky aesthetic of Art Star. Penn's Landing, Columbus Blvd.; 215-922-2386 (2FUN)

Antiques/Art/Crafts Asian Arts Initiative's Benefit Banquet and Auction Raffle prizes, performances, and a silent auction. Ocean City Restaurant, 234 N. Ninth St. $75. 4/27. 6-9 pm. " Consuming Boundaries Fiber-based sculptures by artists Maria Anasazi, Susan Benarcik, Ana B. Hernandez & Diane Savona. Perkins Center for the Arts Collingswood, 30 Irvin Ave., Collingswood. 4/28. " Princeton & the Gothic Revival: 1870-1930 Exploration of the late-19th-century Gothic Revival movement in American architecture & design.