Can anyone name a cabinetmaker / woodworker / furniture seller who makes & sells something like this small endtable? I like the design an awful lot and could really use something like this, but I also know that Home Decorators Collection sell mostly junk, and their idea of "hardwood construction" is often fruitwood with an oak veneer. I’d much rather buy from the maker or at least someone a bit closer to the maker, anyway.
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This Month’s Obligatory Craigslist Aggregation
It’s December, and you’re looking for that perfect gift, maybe a piece of furniture or a lamp or something for the Craftsman aficionado in your family. You don’t have time to wait for shipping – you’ve gotta find something nearby. So you visit craigslist.org, fire up your home city, and find…
- a Stickley Bros. Quaint Furniture lamp table in mint condition: $1500, Los Gatos CA
- matching Gustav Stickley armchair & small rocker: $699 for both, San Francisco CA
- refinished 1912 side chair: $345, Burlingame CA
- 3-piece (settee, rocker, armchair) repro Gustav set: $2300, San Francisco CA
- oak slat umbrella stand: $250, Danville CA
- Gustav Stickley rocker: $300, Boston MA
- Mission wall clock, brass numbers: $150, Boston MA
- four-drawer tiger oak dresser with mirror: $400, Boston MA
- small oak writing desk: $195, Boston MA
- attractive library desk with shelves, chair included: $200, Boston MA
- another library desk, this one by L&JG Stickley: $1200, Los Angeles CA
- wooden Stickley lamp with red mica shade: $300, Los Angeles CA
- 1000 sq ft of redwood block flooring: $4-6/sqft, Los Angeles CA
- Mission foosball table??: $600, Milwaukee WI
- Stickley Quaint Furniture writing desk: $450, Manhattan NY
- nice Stickley oak panel loveseat (but please use better fabric!): $4500, Philadelphia PA
- double fixture & pendant by my favorite lighting manufacturer/retailer, Rejuvenation: $87 / $129, Portland OR
Frank Lloyd Wright Trust … furniture?
The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust is now selling a line of furniture (mostly mirrors so far) in typical Wright Prairie designs. A baby-sized barrel chair and adult-sized bar furniture in the same design; a "George" chair and "Adia" side table; a large and very solid mahogany dining table and chairs.Jeffrey Hunt Woodworking
Jeffrey Hunt‘s work is a fusion of Japanese and Craftsman styles and mixes a variety of woods. The long horizontal lines, grids and rigid angles of the work make it especially complementary to a Prairie home (like this Frank Lloyd Wright-influenced chair), although his work might be the taste of anyone interested in Asian-influenced Arts and Crafts. His more angular modern work is also quite attractive.
Hunt lives and works in Nevada City, a small town in the foothills of the northern Sacramento Valley.
More Craigslist Finds
We search Craigslist so you don’t have to:
- Stickley Bros. bench with pillows: $850 (Davis CA)
- trestle table: $100 (Fair Oaks CA)
- antique oak umbrella stand: $300 (Danville CA)
- L&JG Stickley dining table & chairs, + Fulper bowl & runner: $3500 (San Francisco CA)
- Stickley Bros. rocker: $750 (Gilroy CA)
- 1915 oak writing table/desk: $400 (Burlingame CA)
- oak library table, needs refinishing: $225 (Los Gatos CA)
- unknown maker, unique design A&C dining table, c. 1912: $3500 obo (Belmont MA)
- A&C paneled rocker with original leather: $250 (Boston MA)
- Stickley Bros. writing desk: $900 (Chicago IL)
- Prairie style stained glass lamp by Karl Barry: $1950 (Chicago IL)
- A&C stained glass chandelier: $90 (Chicago IL)
- salvaged previously-builtin A&C cabinets (4): $100-$150 each (Chicago IL)
- unknown maker, unique design oak library desk: $635 (Seattle WA)
- 1899 Roycroft book, signed by Elbert Hubbard: $100 (Seattle WA)
- A&C oak library table: $160 (Seattle WA)
- pair of Gustav Stickley spindle cube chairs: $5000 (Portland OR)
- A&C oak smokers’ stand: $125 (Portland OR)
- English A&C childs’ rocker: $80 (Portland OR)
- Stickley file cabinet, looks new: $999 (Santa Monica CA)
- new-looking Morris rocker: $950 (Santa Monica CA)
- slat-backed Gustav Stickley rocker: $800 (Venice CA)
- another slat-backed A&C rocker: 450 (Santa Monica CA)
Recent Craigslist Finds
Another slow news week, and I’ve put together a list of eye-catching items from the San Francisco iteration of Craigslist, the original of that now world-wide free classifieds site (which I believe was bought by Ebay not too long ago).
- not quite Mission ex-built-in buffet unit, $1450
- supposedly 1890s Irish farm table and set of Mission chairs, $2000
- small and clean Craftsman writing desk, $325
- Restoration Hardware "Audio Bureau," $1700
- Restoration Hardware CA King panel bed, $1500
- beautiful & underpriced leather and wood A&C settle, $225
- Pottery Barn-ish chest of drawers, $200
- two 1937 Mission-ish chairs, $30
- new kitchen table & 6 chairs, $800
- 4 Stickley Bros. ladder-back rattan-seat chairs, $400
- light oak relatively new Stickley coffee table, $650
- Stickley Bros. armchair, $300
- ten-foot Mission oak benches, $200 each
Joel Liebman Custom Furniture
Joel Liebman and Avery & Ginger (who succeed Jasmine) build beautiful and almost exclusively custom-to-order works of art and craft. Joel – formally trained at the Genoa School in the late 1980s – is now working out of a shop on the third floor of a classic New England millhouse (long since converted into artists’ studios) in Easthampton MA. Much of his work has the angles of streamline deco and moderne styled work and would fit in almost as well in the early 1930s as it does today, but Joel’s ability spans more than a single style. His use of multiple materials – wood, glass, and leather – and his tremendous technical ability as a cabinetmaker are what make his work really stand out. I am especially impressed with his original Craftsman designs.Joseph van Benten, Furnituremakers
Designing work that can only be categorized as Nouveau Shaker or possibly Surreal Shaker, Joseph van Benten and his staff build (very) original pieces from woods local to their shop in Brookline, MA. They’ve been at it for almost 25 years, and the range of work – from traditional Shaker designs to Greene & Greene & Craftsman style work to Asian-influenced plans and some very original modernistic seating – is matched only by their creativity. I especially like the simple lines of their Shaker & Prairie styled cabinet work.
Object Fetish: Craigslist, May 2005
I love to trawl Craigslist.org for neat bits and pieces, although most of what I come up with is junk – all-MDF made-in-China "authentic Mission oak" entertainment centers and the like. However, in between that stuff are items of note, looking for loving homes; here’s what I’ve found this morning:
- an attractive 1-drawer telephone table in San Francisco
- a Barber Bros. armchair, also in San Francisco
- a tiled A&C/nouveau washstand in Berkeley
- a Berkeley Mills dining set in Marin
- a restored quarter-sawn white oak settle in San Francisco
- an interestingly-framed mirror in San Francisco
- doorknobs in Seattle
- a rebuilt Mission pendulum wall clock in Seattle
- a couple of good looking Couristan rugs in Seattle
- a Globe Wernicke stacking bookcase in Seattle
- a very pretty sideboard with mirror, also in Seattle
- a relatively new-looking Morris rocker in Los Angeles
- a set of interesting hanging table lamps in Minneapolis
- a tiger oak piano, also in Minneapolis
- a rocking chair in Atlanta
- another, similar chair in San Diego
- an intricate Nouveau hall stand in San Diego
- a pretty high-grain golden oak roll-top desk in Manhattan
Object Fetish: Ebay, April 2005
Lots of good stuff on Ebay this week – tomorrow I’ll go through A&C items on various Craigslist regional sites, but today I’ve got a few deals from ebay to share.
- a simple picture frame
- a roll of William Morris olive-leaf wallpaper
- a copper water-pitcher
- a pretty bungalow in South Carolina
- a chandelier with green art glass
- door hinges?
- a necktie rack, apparently
- a whole bunch of Roycroft stoneware jugs
- a Stickley library table & an anonymous writing desk
- an interesting, contemporary-looking lamp
- another lamp, this one a bit more classic
