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Gustav Stickley and American Mission Furniture

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, designers and craftsmen began to rebel against the elaborate and pretentious extravagances of the Victorian period. A movement developed that advocated a return to the straightforward, utilitarian concept of design where form followed function.

The movement, known as the American Mission style, lasted for approximately 25 years — from 1895 to 1920. Its most successful and best known proponent was Gustav Stickley.

Stickley rose to prominence in a few short years — between 1900 and 1905. In response to the overbearing European influence on design, Stickley determined that Americans needed a style of their own. It was a style that, in keeping with Stickley's ideology, was not so much a separate style as it was a reflection of those qualities that he believed made America great. Stickley saw Americans "who desire in their homes a certain sturdy elegance, good construction, good craftsmanship, beautiful lines, rich and durable furniture." Toward this end, he developed a line of furniture that employed the through mortise-and-tenon ioint. a

feature that proudly displayed (rather than concealed) the manner of construction. It was a theme that carried throughout Stickley's work, echoing his contention that "the constructive feature must be plainly visible, and declare the purpose and use of the work." He called his line of furniture Craftsman, in an effort to emphasize both the ideology behind his designs, and the fact that they were made largely by hand.

The American public, fed up with ornate Victorian reproductions that were often only poorly constructed imitations of the European originals, eagerly accepted Stickley's work. Indeed, his meteoric rise was so sudden that by 1901 he had begun publishing The Craftsman, a magazine devoted to his concept of design as if applied not only to furniture, but to interior decor and even architecture.

In 1905, Stickley moved to New York City, and in 1908 he opened the 600 acre Craftsman Farms in Morris Plains, New Jersey. It was a place where the Stickley ideal that "design must grow out of necessity" was put intn nracticp in a snrt nf eYn^rimpntal