Settle
1909 · Oak and replacement leather upholstery
96.5 × 180.5 × 55.9 cm (38 × 71 1/16 × 22 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Gustav Stickley
American, 1858
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Gustav Stickley was an American furniture designer and craftsman who pioneered the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States through the production of rectilinear oak furniture emphasizing honest joinery and structural clarity. Working from his workshops in Syracuse and later Michigan, he championed handcrafted design as a reaction against industrial mass production, embedding his philosophy in the influential magazine The Craftsman, which he founded in 1901. His signature style, marked by exposed mortise-and-tenon joints and quarter-sawn oak, established a distinctly American domestic aesthetic that prioritized functionality and material integrity over ornament.
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