Gustav Stickley

Private Family, Syracuse, New York, circa 1905
Beth Cathers and Nick Dembrosky, Tenafly, New Jersey
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Gustav Stickley, Craftsman Furniture, Eastwood, New York, 1912, p. 32
Gustav Stickley, Craftsman House: A Book for Home-Makers, New York, 1913, pp. 32 and 35 (for the standard Director's model shown in situ in period commissions)
Stickley Craftsman Furniture Catalogs, New York, 1979, p. 51
Stephen Gray and Robert Edwards, eds., Collected Works of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1981, p. 106 (for the standard model, no. 631)
From Architecture to Object:  Masterworks of the American Arts & Crafts Movement, New York, 1989, pp. 38 (for a period photograph of the standard model in Gustav Stickley's Syracuse residence) and 39 (for the standard model, no. 631)
Leslie Green Bowman, American Arts & Crafts; Virtue in Design, exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990, p. 89
A. Patricia Bartinique, Gustav Stickley: His Craft, Parsippany, NJ, 1992, p. 59 (for the standard model, no. 631)
Barbara Mayer, In the Arts & Crafts Style, New York, 1992, p. 151 (for the present lot illustrated)
David Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, 1996, p. 213
David Cathers and Alexander Vertikoff, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, p. 181
Douglas Congdon-Martin, ed., The Gustav Stickley Photo Archives, Atglen, PA, 2002, frontis (for the above period photograph of the standard model in Gustav Stickley's Syracuse residence) and p. 106 (for the standard model, no. 631)
Linda H. Roth and Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, eds., At Home with Gustav Stickley: American Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection, London, 2008, p. 91 (for the standard model, no. 631)
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Seattle, 2010, p. 139 (for a variant of the model)

Overall very good condition. The table retains its original finish, which displays a rich warm tone. The table with minor and light wear to the finish concentrated to the table top and edges of the table top, consistent with age and gentle use. The wood surfaces with scattered minor surface scratches, abrasions, occasional small/minor discolorations, and some light surface soiling concentrated to the recessed contours and consistent with age and gentle use. With some edge abrasions and associated minor losses concentrated to the edges of the aprons, legs and feet consistent with age and use. One of the upper corners of the table top with an old small loss measuring approximately 1 x 1 1/2 inches, not visually detractive. One of the long aprons with a small edge loss near the right leg measuring approximately 1 1/2 inches long. The opposite apron with a small edge loss near the left leg measuring approximately 1 inch long. One leg with a small loss to the outermost vertical edge at approximately mid-height. The wood with some occasional minor age cracks (all stable) due to the natural expansion and contraction of the wood over time, with a slightly more pronounced vertical crack to one leg running the height of the leg. A superb example of this iconic Stickley form in excellent original condition.
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