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Timothy Philbrick
Timothy Philbrick began his furniture career by becoming an apprentice after graduating high school. He worked for over four years with John C. Northup Jr., restoring and reproducing traditional 18th-century furniture in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. With this training, he enrolled as a graduate student at Boston University in 1975, studying the history of furniture with John Kirk in the American Studies Department, and design with Jere Osgood and Alphonse Mattia in [...] Click here to continue reading.
Mark Pitman
A cabinetmaker from Salem, Massachusetts, Mark Pitman (1779-1829) worked on Essex Street near Cambridge from roughly 1800 to 1827, according to American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940 by William C. Ketchum, Jr.
The book lists four known marks:
* Cabinet Work, OF ALL KINDS, Made and Warranted, by Mark Pitman ESSEX STREET, SALEM Shop nearly oppofite (sic) to Cambridge Street. Orders gratefully acknowledged, & promplty executed.
* CABINET WORK, OF ALL KINDS, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Prismatic table
The last piece of furniture designed by Isamu Noguchi was the Prismatic table in 1957. Reminiscent of Japanese art of origami, the piece was similar to his 1950s sculptures of bent and folded aluminum.
The table was created for Alcoa, which was exploring new uses of aluminum. Two version of the table were designed. For use in Alcoa advertisements, one was modular and multicolored. Only recently has that three-legged table been [...] Click here to continue reading.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Louis Comfort Tiffany, born in New York City on February 18, 1848, was one of America’s foremost leaders of the Art Nouveau Movement. Tiffany opened his glassworks in 1885 on Long Island, New York producing a wide range of outstanding designs for lamps, windows and decorative objects. As a leading developer of new forms of art glass, L. C. Tiffany is most noted for his Favrile glass produced from 1892 into [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Letchworth
American Cabinetmakers, Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940 by William C. Ketchum, Jr., offers the following information about John Letchworth: “The highly productive Philadelphia turner John Letchworth (1759-1843) produced a wide variety of Windsor from his shop on Third and Fourth streets during the period 1784-1807. He then moved to Chester County and pursued a career as an itinerant Quaker preacher. Letchworth’s chairs were branded I. LETCHWORTH and included settees; bow-back, rod-back, and comb-back [...] Click here to continue reading.
Thomas Cotton Hayward
A brief biography of Thomas Cotton Hayward is offered by William C. Ketchum, Jr., in American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940. Ketchum wrote: “The Charlestown, Massachusetts, turner Thomas Cotton Hayward (working c. 1790-1820) placed his brand T.C. HAYWARD beneath the seat of a wide variety of Windsor chairs, including continuous-arm chairs, bow-back side chairs, and a low-back, writing-arm chair. He may also have produced fancy chairs, as his advertisement in the [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Lifetime Collection of Carl & Joyce Mueller, Tallmadge, Ohio
“For over one half century, we have collected – lived with – and enjoyed antiques”.
Carl spent over fifty years in the commercial radiator business started by his father in 1920. Joyce is a retired elementary public school teacher. Our first collecting passion was for Edwardian era antique automobiles and mechanical music (music boxes, automaton, orchestrion, etc.) Shortly after our marriage in [...] Click here to continue reading.
George Nakashima (1905-1990)
George Nakashima was born in Spokane, Washington in 1905, the son of Japanese immigrants. His educational pursuits began in the 1920′s at the University of Washington, and from there he studied in Paris at the Ecole Americaine des Beaux Arts and ultimately graduated from MIT with an MA in Architecture in 1930. He also learned traditional woodworking in Japan and India.
In 1931, when Nakashima began his professional life as [...] Click here to continue reading.
R-Way Furniture
The following information was available on Wikicollecting.org (December 2011):
The R-Way Furniture Company was initially founded in 1881 as the Mattoon Manufacturing Company, and by 1900 the business had grown to employ 800 workers on a site which covered 12 acres.
When the company’s founder, George B. Mattoon, died in 1904, the company was renamed the Northern Furniture Company and went on to successfully produce a wide range of furniture, including dining [...] Click here to continue reading.
Gustav Stickley (1858-1942)
Gustav Stickley is credited with creating the first distinctly American style of furniture known as Craftsman. He was born on March 9, 1858 in Osceola, Wisconsin to German immigrant parents. As the eldest of six children he went to work as a stonemason at the age of twelve when his father deserted the family in 1870. In 1875, Gustav (originally spelled with an “e”), Charles, and Albert Stickley learned basic furniture [...] Click here to continue reading.
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