Arm Chair (no. 1295-A)

1901-04

Gustave Stickley Company

The United Crafts

The Craftsman Workshops

Rush or Spanish leather seat.

The evolution of this form features some subtle refinements that may prove to instructive for helping to establish a more reliable chronology for the subtle changes in Stickley’s chair production from 1901-04. Unlike much of the furniture that Stickley produced in this period, which was often photographed a single time, three known photographs of this model exist. Both examples dated to 1902 show a gentle tapering at the bottom of the legs, whereas the ones exhibited in the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Syracuse from 1903 lack that feature altogether. This suggests that by late 1902 or early 1903, the practice of tapering legs had been abandoned, and whether or not the decision was intended to be aesthetic or economic, it removed labor from the construction of the chair and made it cheaper to produce.

1295-A

Factory Inventory (1902-04)

Irene Sargent, “A Recent Arts and Crafts Exhibition,” The Craftsman 4 (May 1903).

$26.00 (Chips from the Workshops of the United Crafts)

(Austrian Oak Chips from the Workshops of the United Crafts)

Oak (1903 inventory)