Partners’ Desk or Library Table
Title
Partners’ Desk or Library Table
Date
1902
Maker
The United Crafts
Notes
Currently in the collection of the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, this table is an exceptional example of his early work. The drawers feature hand-cut dovetails and help secure a date of prior to 1903, when Stickley recorded the purchase of a dovetail machine in his Factory Inventory. Unlike later pieces, the drawers were numbered by striking them with a chisel, rather than an Arabic number die.
Cataloged In
Documented In
Natalie Curtis, “The New Log House at Craftsman Farms: An Architectural Development of the Log Cabin,” The Craftsman 21 (November 1911): 196-203
Materials
Elm and glass with copper hardware. Originally finished in green (now with a restored green finish).
