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Unique gifts and gift ideas - Fine art, glass, furniture, home decor, handmade jewelry - The GUILD
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The GUILD and The Artful Home is the nation`s leading retailer of fine art and fine craft, handcrafted home decor items and unique gifts, including handblown glass, handblown glass ornaments, ceramics, one-of-a-kind teapots, furniture, studio furniture, lighting, Judaica, equine art, horse art, paintings, prints, photography and jewelry created by artists.
About:
THE GUILD is the leading source for original art and fine craft, direct from the original studios of artists nationwide. THE GUILD was born in 1985 to help design professionals locate artists for commissions and special projects. The launch of the GUILD .com website and catalog in 1999 brought wider access to GUILD artists. Today, THE GUILD represents more that 1,000 artists across North America, working in media from print to glass to studio furniture. The Artful Home is a seasonal collection carefully selected from the 10,000 items available at guild.com and artfulhome.com.
In 1985, Toni Sikes launched THE GUILD, a publishing company with the mission of helping artists market and sell their work. Annual GUILD sourcebooks feature photographs of artists` works, and are distributed to designers and architects. Today, GUILD sourcebooks have resulted in thousands of new art commissions for public and private spaces and are recognized by design professionals as "the industry standard" (Art Calendar). More than 350,000 sourcebooks have been printed in multiple languages.
In 1992, GUILD added coffee-table and how-to books to its publishing line, allowing many artists to present their artwork in bookstores throughout North America. By the mid-1990s, GUILD had become a well-known brand in the design trades, forged strong relationships with thousands of artists and built a reputation of quality and integrity. Sikes wanted to expand GUILD`s market reach to consumers and began looking for another medium.
Along came the Internet and the possibility of bringing original art to anyone, anywhere, with a computer and a modem. In the past four years, GUILD.com has juried tens of thousands of artworks to establish an unparalleled collection of original fine art and fine craft. |
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