Inlaid Armchair
Title
Inlaid Armchair
Date
1903-04
Maker
The United Crafts
The Craftsman Workshops
Notes
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an example of this chair with the inlay pattern that was illustrated in 1903. See: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/19007
The third image, showing a variation of the inlays is courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art, Object No. 2010.22. The final image depicts a version of the chair without inlay that appeared in the August 1903 issue of The Craftsman.
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 for these earlier pieces of inlaid furniture should be treated with caution. The publication of the forms in The Craftsman and the Sales Journals from 1904 reliably indicate these forms were being produced in those years, but whether they were manufactured beyond this point remains unknown. Stickley certainly used inlay on furniture through at least 1913, as later examples of furniture including his “New Craftsman Piano,” and a sideboard in the Craftsman Restaurant attest to. Extant inventories that have not yet been transcribed or additional information may shed further light on the topic that enables us to date these earlier inlaid items with more certainty.
Documented In
Claude Fayette Bragdon, “A Simple Dwelling,”The Craftsman 4 (September 1903): 484.
See also: “Puss in Boots: An Old Myth in New Dress,” The Craftsman 4 (August 1903): 373 for a drawing of the chair without inlay.