Chalet Desk Chair Rush Seat (no. 2578)
Title
Chalet Desk Chair Rush Seat (no. 2578)
Date
1900-04
Maker
Gustave Stickley Company
The United Crafts
The Craftsman Workshops
Notes
1901 Retail Plates illustrate solid back rail and specify Oak with a Rush or Roan Skin seat. Form is called a “small chair.”
Like the Chalet Desk (no. 505), this chair underwent subtle modifications that help distinguish when it was made. The earliest model shared the same cutouts as the desk, whereas by the publication of the 1901 retail plates and the November issue of The Craftsman, these had been removed.
Model No.
2578
Cataloged In
Documented In
Factory Inventory (1901-04)
Retail Price
$7.50 (1901 Factory Inventory)
$5.75 (1901 Retail Plates)
Materials
Oak (1901 Retail Plates)
Oak and Hazel (1901 inventory)
Oak (1903 inventory)
Credit Line
1901 Retail Plate image courtesy of Winterthur Library, Gustav Stickley, [Drawings of articles of furniture, printed and reproduced] (Syracuse, NY: G. Stickley, 1901), call no. NK2265 S845g.
1902 Retail Plate image courtesy of Winterthur Library, Gustav Stickley, [Catalog of Photoprinted Plates] [Grand Rapids, Mich.]: G. Stickley, [1902 or 1903], call no. NK2265 S845 F TC