Inlaid Library Table

Title

Inlaid Library Table

Date

1903-04

Maker

The United Crafts
The Craftsman Workshops

Dimensions

29 7/8 x 41 7/8 x 25 1/8 inches

Notes

Little is known about the design and production of Stickley’s inlaid furniture that features a medial stretcher which is flush with the floor. Aside from a few chairs and a table that appeared as drawings in the Craftsman in 1903, two tables photographed for “Structure and Ornament in The Craftsman Workshops,” (January 1904), and a handful of other forms, this does not appear to have been a design detail that lasted very long. The date of these objects has relied upon the appearance of inlaid furniture in The Craftsman in 1903 and 1904. Whether production continued later than that for pieces which were not published in catalogs is unknown.

Documented In

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary. Accession no. M.89.151.3. Image is in the public domain.

Materials

LACMA lists: Oak, lemon wood, sycamore, exotic woods, copper, pewter, brass