If you can’t make it to New Jersey to visit our museum and historic site in person, you can view photos and read about the pieces in our collection. This first piece is one of two beds upstairs in the Log House in what would have been Stickley’s daughters’ bedroom.
Inlaid bed
Dimensions: 57 1/2″ W x 38 1/2″ H (headboard) x 79″ D
Materials: Oak with inlays of copper and tinted woods
Inlays: Made by the firm of George H. Jones, New York City
Date: Ca. 1910 – 1911
Mark: Red joiner’s compass with Gustav Stickley signature, on inside of headboard.
Designer: Unknown
Anonymous gift to The Craftsman Farms Foundation.
The two beds made for the girls’ bedroom are chiefly important – from a design standpoint – as essential parts of this room’s decorative ensemble. Like the chests of drawers (visit our main site for more information on the other furniture in the girls’ room), they are made of oak washed with gray tones and their headboards and footboards are inlaid with the same copper motifs set in turquoise blue grounds.
And as further evidence of the great care with which this furniture was designed, the elevated, shaped “lift” motif of the headboards and footboards is the “solid” that echoes the “void” formed by the sawn-out aprons at the bottoms of the chests of drawers. The Craftsman magazine had been advocating unified, harmoniously colored interior design since 1902 and creating it with great assurance since Harvey Ellis’s brief tenure in 1903. Throughout the log house at Craftsman Farms – and particularly in the girls’ bedroom – Stickley’s designers faithfully followed those precepts.
As in Stickley’s time, there are now two of these inlaid beds in the girls’ bedroom. One is original and the other a replica made in 2003 by Steve and Mary Ann Voorhees.
Visit our main site for more information about the rest of the girls’ room and other pieces in the collection, or plan a visit to Craftsman Farms to see the collection for yourself!
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