Ladies’ Desk (no. 706) [with inlays]
Title
Ladies’ Desk (no. 706) [with inlays]
Date
1903-1904 (probably)
Maker
The United Crafts
The Craftsman Workshops
Notes
The production of Stickley’s inlaid furniture is not well understood at this point, and if the starting date is relatively certain, the terminal date should be treated with caution. Evidence suggests that Stickley continued using inlay after 1907, as a number of forms (like the bedroom suite for his daughters at The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms and a related dresser at LACMA) are later versions of Dresser (no. 913) that have a solid panel announced in the Descriptive Price List of Craftsman Furniture. A photograph in David Cathers, Gustav Stickley (London and New York: Phaidon, 2003), 102-3, shows a dining room at McCreery’s in Pittsburgh full of inlaid furniture, but is undated. Extant inventories that have not yet been transcribed or additional information may shed further light on the topic that enables us to date these items with more certainty.
Model No.
706
Documented In
“Structure and Ornament in The Craftsman Workshops,” The Craftsman 5 (January 1904): 394.