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Mission style furniture 1880-1915 |
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The word mission furniture references the furniture of Spanish missions throughout colonial California in the late 19th Century. Mission style furniture was
primarily built from native American oak
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varnished but never painted, with leather and canvas, crafted to be
simple and useful. There were no unnecessary lines in mission furniture, the tenors often
pegged for extra strength or passing right through the mortise as a
design element. Gustav Stickley 1858-1942, was the key figure of this
era. Stickley ran a chair factory in the 1880s. At the beginning of the
20th century he planned to establish a boarding school for boys in
Morris Plains, New Jersey. Most famous in mission furniture is the Stickley chair. The mission style furniture had a general decline after WW1. In recent years, Stickley style has become popular once more. |
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