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Gustav Stickley

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gustav Stickley 1858-1942, American furniture designer, b. Osceola, Wis. Probably the best-known American associated with the arts and crafts movement, Stickley ran a Binghamton, N.Y., chair factory in the 1880s. Around the turn of the century he began producing a line of sturdy, functional, and comparatively affordable oak pieces. Often called mission furniture, they celebrated simplicity and function over complexity and ornament. Stickley founded (1901) the Craftsman Workshops in Eastwood, N.Y., and established a monthly magazine, The Craftsman. His workshops were especially noted for... Read more
Stickley, Gustav 1857-1942
STICKLEY, GUSTAV 1857-1942 Furniture designer The Craftsman...British painter-designer William Morris, Gustav Stickley created a distinctly American approach...exotic woods. The Stickley Brothers Gustav Stickley was born on 9 March 1857 in Osceola... Read more
Gustav Stickley
...Craftsman (1901–16). In 1916 two younger brothers established a firm to produce furniture from his designs and gave the style the name Mission, by which name it is still popular today. Gustav Stickley Gustav Stickley Gustav Stickley Read more

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