WILSON, N.C. (WNCT) — If you’ve been to downtown Wilson, you’ve experienced the whimsical joy of the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park. Vollis Simpson was a World War II veteran and a farm machinery ...

The chances are, at some point, you have probably come across a print by Collier Campbell, the London-based textile studio founded in the 1960s by Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell. For 50 years, the ...

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In the more than 80 years since Māori Rafter & Tāniko Designs first saw the light of day, the book’s clear text and sumptuous colour patterns have served legions of readers and craftspeople. Now ...

One of the best sculpture parks in the country features dozens of whimsical metal structures created by a man who never called himself an artist. The late Vollis Simpson, who grew up and lived in the ...

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Vollis Simpson (1919–2013) grew up on a North Carolina farm “fixing things before he could read,” writes Boston Weatherford. When an injury in his 60s forced him to close his successful machine-repair ...

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