Bed
Title
Bed
Date
1910-15 (probably)
Maker
The Craftsman Workshops
Gustav Stickley, The Craftsman
Notes
The introduction and production of this model are not documented and the range of dates suggested are necessarily speculative. Certainly the bed was in production by September 1911, when Stickley had the Log House photographed for The Craftsman and illustrated one of the two beds in his daughter’s bedroom. The example on display at the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms features a red decal traditionally dated between 1905 and 1912. This model featured the later style of inlay but–along with the no. 913 dressers and no. 641 stand) were executed in oak as opposed to the maple one typically finds. The negative for this model was published in Leslie Greene Bowman and Douglas Congdon-Martin, The Gustav Stickley Photo Archives (Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2002), 190 (top left), without inlay.
Documented In
Natalie Curtis, “The New Log House at Craftsman Farms: An Architectural Development of the Log Cabin,” The Craftsman 21 (November 1911): 199.
Douglas Congdon-Martin, ed., The Gustav Stickley Photo Archives (Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2002), 190.
Credit Line
Image of bed without inlay courtesy of Winterthur Library. Original negatives are housed in Gustav Stickley, Business Papers, Col. 60, SGN 1-SGN 675, Winterthur Library, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Winterthur, Delaware.