Lot 450
  • 450

Gustav Stickley

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Description

  • Gustav Stickley
  • A Superb Library Table, model no. 410-L
  • with firm's red decal and inscribed 410 on underside of top

  • oak with the original leather top and brass tacks

  • executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, NY

Literature

Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916, Princeton, 1972, p. 43
Isabelle Anscombe and Charlotte Gere, Arts & Crafts in Britain and America, London, 1978, p. 146
Jerome and Cynthia Rubin, Mission Furniture, San Francisco, 1980, p. 36
Stephen Gray, The Early Work of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, pp. 45, 71 and 90
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 27
R. Craig Miller, Modern Design in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1890-1990, New York, 1990, pp. 66-67
Barbara Mayer, In the Arts & Crafts Style, San Francisco, 1992, p. 193
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY, 1996, p. 206
David Cathers, ed., Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Farms: A Pictorial History, Morris Plains, NJ, 1999, p. 18 (for a period photograph showing the model in Stickley's living room at Craftsman Farms) and pp. 26-27
David Cathers and Alexander Vertikoff, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, pp. 21, 49-51, 76, and 118
David Cathers, Gustav Stickley, New York, 2003, p. 192 (for a period photograph showing the model in Stickley's living room at Craftsman Farms) and p. 208 (for the model shown in Architectural Review, January 1904)
Kevin P. Rodel and Jonathan Binzen, Arts & Crafts Furniture: From Classic to Contemporary, Newtown, CT, 2003, p. 103
Robert Winter and Alexander Vertikoff, Craftsman Style, New York, 2004, p. 66
Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry, eds., International Arts and Crafts, London, 2005, pp. 146-147

Catalogue Note

This library table is the only known example to display flat through-tenons, as illustrated in Gustav Stickley's 1902 retail plates.