At Home with Gustav Stickley: Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection

by David M. Cathers, Tommy Thompson, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser

During his first years as an Arts and Crafts furniture maker, from about mid-1900 to early 1904, Gustav Stickley and his designers created the most significant cabinetwork his firm would ever produce. For the most part made of quarter-sawn American oak, this furniture was substantial, subtly proportioned, essentially rectilinear, and built using traditional joinery--for instance, tenon and key, dovetail, pinned through tenons--and employing hand-wrought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918333245
• ISBN13: 9780918333247
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Wadsworth Atheneum
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 11.2"