Sideboard by Gustav Stickley
American Arts and Crafts: quarter-sawn oak, visible tenons and hand-wrought hardware.
Stickley’s Craftsman Workshops sold furniture across America by catalogue and magazine. His sideboards and Morris chairs became standard in the bungalows of the period. Examples are in the Metropolitan Museum and the Stickley Museum at Fayetteville.
Materials: Quarter-sawn white oak, wrought iron or copper hardware
Manufacture: Factory-made but with visible through tenons and hand-hammered hardware; the surface fumed and oiled.
Quarter-sawing shows the oak’s rays as shining flecks.
The factory mark, a joiner’s clamp with the motto Als ik kan, inside a drawer.