Stickley Style Arts and Crafts in the Craftsman Tradition

Cathers, David and Vertikoff, Alexander

ISBN 10: 0684856034 / ISBN 13: 9780684856032

Published by Simon & Schuster, NY, 1999

About this Item

This is a Very Fine (Appears Unread) copy of the first edition (1st printing). In a Very Fine dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in full color photographs. The evolution and design of Gustav Stickley and the central role he played in the development of Arts & Crafts design.

Seller Inventory # 054737

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stickley Style Arts and Crafts in the Craftsman Tradition
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NY
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684856034
• ISBN 13: 9780684856032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A renowned scholar of the Arts and Crafts movement uses specially commissioned photographs and rare archival prints to trace the origins of the back-to-basics style that has come back into vogue recently.

About the Author

David Cathers is a writer and frequent lecturer on the Arts and Crafts movement. He is also a trustee of Craftsman Farms. Stickley's log home in New Jersey, which is now a National Historic Landmark Cathers is the author of Furniture of the American Arts and Grafts Movement, the first in-depth study of the Furniture made by Gustav Stickley, L. & J. G. Stickley, and the Roycrofters. His Genius in the Shadows, a study of Harvey Ellis, traces the work of the architect who designed some of Stickley's most important Furniture. A former advertising executive, Cathers lives with his wife in Westchester County, New York, in a farmhouse furnished with classic Stickley pieces.