ANTIQUE GUSTAV STICKLEY OAK CRAFTSMAN SEWING ROCKER ARTS & CRAFTS SPINDLE BACK  

THIS IS A GUSTAV STICKLEY SEWING ROCKER.  IT IS SOLID OAK, CONSTRUCTED WITH THE USE OF MORTISE AND TENON AND PEGS.  THE BACK HAS NINE THIN, SQUARE SPINDLES, CHARACTERISTIC OF GUSTAV STICKLEY'S CRAFTSMAN/SPINDLE DESIGN INTRODUCED AND PATENTED IN 1905.  THIS DESIGN REFLECTED THE INFLUENCE OF EARLIER DESIGNS BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT WHOSE NAME WAS NEVER MENTIONED IN STICKLEY PUBLICATIONS AT THAT TIME.  THIS DESIGN WAS AN EFFORT TO INTRODUCE A MORE ORNATE AND GRACEFUL LINE OF FURNITURE IN CONTRAST TO STICKLEY'S EARLIER MORE MASSIVE STYLE.  THIS LINE WAS POPULAR FOR FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, BUT BY 1910 HAD CEASED TO BE PRODUCED.  MORE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND IN THE BOOK TITLED: "GUSTAV STICKLEY" by DAVID CATHERS and published by PHAIDON PRESS LIMITED 2003. 

THE ORIGINAL HARD LEATHER SEAT IS LONG GONE.  TWO ORIGINAL PARTS OF THE SEAT ARE AVAILABLE.  ONE IS THE ORIGINAL WEBBING AND THE OTHER IS THE UNDERSKIRT OR CLOTH THAT WAS PLACED AS A PROTECTIVE DUST COVER UNDER THE SEAT.  ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THAT COVER IS A PARTIAL BROWN PAPER LABEL 2, USED BY GUSTAV STICKLEY FROM 1907-1912.  THIS CORRESPONDS TO THE LABEL FOUND ON PAGE 164 OF THE BOOK "STICKLEY BROTHERS" BY MICHAEL CLARK AND JILL-THOMAS CLARK, COPYRIGHT 2002, AND PUBLISHED BY GIBBS SMITH, LAYTON, UTAH.  THE LABEL MEASURES 3" X 4 3/4".  IT IDENTIFIES THE "CRAFTSMAN" AS THE "TRADEMARK" FOR ALL FURNITURE "MADE BY GUSTAV STICKLEY IN THE CRAFTSMAN WORKSHOPS, EASTWOOD, NEW YORK, AND NEW YORK CITY SHOW ROOMS, 29 WEST THIRTY FOURTH ST."  THE MEASUREMENTS ARE HEIGHT OF BACK FROM FLOOR 34"; HEIGHT OF SEAT FROM FLOOR 13 1/2"; SIZE OF SEAT 17 1/2"W(AT FRONT), 16"W(AT THE BACK) AND 16" DEPTH. 

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