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Gustav Stickley
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Description
- Gustav Stickley
- A Rare Single-Door Bookcase
- with firm's paper label
oak and glass
- executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, NY
Provenance
Skinner, Boston
Christie's New York, December 8, 1993, lot 341
Literature
Stephen Gray and Robert Edwards, eds., Collected Works of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1981, pp. 92-92 (for related bookcases designed by Harvey Ellis)
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 35 (for a related bookcase designed by Harvey Ellis)
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, p. 84 (for a related bookcase designed by Harvey Ellis)
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY, 1996, p. 110 (for a related bookcase designed by Harvey Ellis)
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement: 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 35 (for a related bookcase designed by Harvey Ellis)
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, Los Angeles, 1990, p. 84 (for a related bookcase designed by Harvey Ellis)
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY, 1996, p. 110 (for a related bookcase designed by Harvey Ellis)
Catalogue Note
This bookcase is the only example presently known of the form, and was likely a custom-ordered design. The overall form and ionic capitals flanking the door are derivative of a series of bookcases (models 700-704) designed by Harvey Ellis for the Stickley firm in 1903.