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Gustav Stickley

Flat-Arm "Morris" Chair

Auction Closed

December 6, 05:52 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Gustav Stickley

Flat-Arm "Morris" Chair


circa 1904

model no. 332

executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, New York

oak, original hand-laced leather seat cushions

with the firm's decal

38¾ x 31½ x 38⅞ (98.4 x 80 x 98.7 cm)

Toomey & Co. Auctions
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Jerome and Cynthia Rubin, Mission Furniture, San Francisco, 1980, pp. 7 and 32
Stephen Gray and Robert Edwards, eds., Collected Works of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1981, pp. 21, 37, 62 and 121
Coy L. Ludwig, The Arts & Crafts Movement in New York State, 1890s-1920s, Hamilton, NY, 1983, p. 60
Stephen Gray, The Early Work of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, p. 91
A. Patricia Bartinique, Gustav Stickley, His Craft: A Daily Vision and a Dream, Parsippany, NJ, 1992, pp. 70-71 (for the 1901 patent and design drawing of this model)
Barbara Mayer, In the Arts & Crafts Style, San Francisco, 1992, p. 53
From Private Collections in Detroit, Detroit, 1993, p. 39
Peter Barnet and MaryAnn Wilkinson, Decorative Arts 1900: Highlights
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY, 1996, pp. 140-141
David Cathers and Alexander Vertikoff, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, pp. 21 and 129
David Cathers, Gustav Stickley, New York, 2003, pp. 78-79, 122 and 174 (for period photographs showing the model in Stickley's 1903 Arts and Crafts exhibition in Rochester and in the Craftsman Building)
Karen Livingstone and Linda Parry, eds., International Arts and Crafts, London, 2005, pp. 155 and 157