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Mission furniture is a style of furniture that originated in the late 19th century. It traces its origins to a chair made by A.J. Forbes around 1894 for San Francisco 's Swedenborgian Church . The term mission furniture was first popularized by Joseph P. McHugh of New York , a furniture manufacturer and retailer who copied these chairs and ...
Stickley began making American Craftsman furniture in 1900, though he did not change the name of his firm to the Craftsman Workshops until 1903. It was sometimes popularly referred to as Mission Style Furniture, a term which Stickley despised. The company ceased making furniture in 1916.
One of eleven children of German émigrés Leopold and Barbara Schlager Stoeckel, Gustav Stickley was born Gustavus Stoeckel on March 9, 1858, in Osceola, Wisconsin.The eldest surviving son, Stickley experienced the rigors of life growing up on a small Midwestern farm, forgoing his formal education in 1870 to continue work in his father's field of stonemasonry and help support his struggling ...
1. Bowlarama by Chris Nichols with Adriene Biondo 2. Chess Players edited by Damon Murray 3. The Tennis Court by Nick Pachelli. Three great examples of how coffee table books cover the waterfront ...
To help you streamline your shopping list, we spoke with some of the nation’s top stylists and asked them to share their favorite coffee table books of all time—the ones that are the best ...
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Craftsman Farms is a historic house located in Parsippany-Troy Hills, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.It was founded by noted early 20th century designer Gustav Stickley as a farm and school for the Arts and Crafts movement. [1]
The Book of HOV — Jay-Z. Arriving after the opening of The Book of HOV exhibit at Brooklyn Library last year, the new coffee table book features 675 photos and illustrations of rapper Jay-Z over ...