As with, say, the pioneer of the hamburger, the inventor of the garden gnome has several claimants. Philipp Griebel, a trained porcelain maker who in 1874 founded a shop in the German state of ...

In their heyday, garden gnomes were one-of-a-kind works of folkloric art. But gnomes fell victim to faddism, mass production and plastic. They became too cute and widely available for their own good.

Garden gnomes — those cute figurines often used to decorate the back yard — are a fairly common sight in the American suburbs. But when you take a minute to really think about gnomes, their ...

People have a love for garden gnomes that is gnot gnormal. The colourful terra cotta lawn decorations pop up in everything from Travelocity commercials to R.L. Stine’s Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes to ...

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I was just wondering whether the director of one of my favorite films had made more movies — and then, like a picture of a garden gnome arriving in the mail, I hear that Amélie director Jean-Pierre ...

As long as I can remember, my father has loved two things – football and gardening. So, this Christmas, when I stumbled across a series of garden gnomes clad in, you guessed it, football jerseys, I ...

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