Important Design

Important Design

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Property from an Important New York Collection

Gustav Stickley

Hexagonal Library Table

Auction Closed

June 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important New York Collection

Gustav Stickley

Hexagonal Library Table


circa 1902

model no. 410 L

executed by the Craftsman Workshops of Gustav Stickley, Eastwood, New York

oak, original leather, brass tacks

30¼ x 55½ x 49 in. (77.5 x 141 x 124.5 cm)

Geoffrey Diner Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Some Chips from the Craftsman Workshops, sales cat., Eastwood, NY, 1909, p. 3
Stephen Gray, The Early Work of Gustav Stickley, New York, 1987, pp. 45, 71 (for drawings of the model) and 90 (for a period photograph of the model)
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 27
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990, p. 79 (for an example of the model in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
David M. Cathers, Furniture of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, Philmont, NY, 1996, p. 206 (for an example of the model in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
David Cathers and Alexander Vertikoff, Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition, New York, 1999, pp. 15, 21, 49-51, 76, 102 and 118
David M. Cathers, Gustav Stickley, London, 2003, pp. 168, 192 and 208 (for period photographs of the model)
Linda H. Roth and Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, eds., At Home with Gustav Stickley: American Arts & Crafts from the Stephen Gray Collection, London, 2008, pp. 10 and 53
Judith A. Barter, ed., Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 2009, p. 98
Kevin W. Tucker, Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Art, 2010, pp. 41 and 117
David Cathers and Susan J. Montgomery, American Arts & Crafts Furniture from the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, 2014, pp. 260-261