Gustav Stickley

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Description

Gustav Stickley
A Rare Book Rack
with firm's decal
ebonized oak
executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, NY

Provenance

Private collection of Robert Kaplan
Cathers & Dembrosky, New York

Literature

Stephen Gray and Robert Edwards, eds., Collected Works of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1981, pp. 95 and 136 (for a related model with a flat bottom shelf and exposed through-tenons)

Catalogue Note

This rare book rack, most likely a custom-ordered design, is the only example presently known of the form with a v-shaped bottom shelf and flush tenons. The catalogued model of this design (no. 74) has a flat bottom shelf below a v-shaped top shelf with exposed through-tenons. This example retains its exceptional original ebonized finish.