Stickley

[ stik-lee ]

noun

1. Gus·tav [guhs, -tahv, goos, -tahf], 1858–1942, U.S. furniture designer, architect, and leader of the Arts and Craft Movement in America.

Example Sentences

"It's very, very difficult part-way through a course to be told you suddenly don't have an option that you had before," said Ben Stickley, CEO of Southend East Community Academy Trust, to which Shoeburyness High School belongs.

From BBC

The Watts have followed suit with Limbert and Stickley Brothers rockers, a Lifetime bookcase and some Stickley reissue furniture.

From Seattle Times

In 1997, Rudy Ciccarello saw a reproduction of a Gustav Stickley bookcase near his home in Palm Harbor, Fla. Weeks later at an auction he saw an original of the bookcase and was soon taken with works from the American Arts and Crafts movement.

From New York Times

The documentary “Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman” examines the life and career of the designer and furniture maker considered the father of the American Arts and Crafts movement.

From Washington Post

It is marginally livelier to hear from the Stickley relative Richard Wiles, who relates being told that a dresser whose drawers he used to smash shut ended up in a museum.

From New York Times