Gustav Stickley (March 9, 1858 – April 21, 1942) was a furniture maker and architect as well as the leading spokesperson for the American Craftsman movement, a descendant of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
Stickley was born in Osceola, Wisconsin in 1858 (original name Stoeckel). In 1901, Stickley founded The Craftsman, a periodical which began by expounding the philosophy of the English Arts & Crafts movement but which matured into the voic...
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Gustav Stickley (March 9, 1858 – April 21, 1942) was a furniture maker and architect as well as the leading spokesperson for the American Craftsman movement, a descendant of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
Stickley was born in Osceola, Wisconsin in 1858 (original name Stoeckel). In 1901, Stickley founded The Craftsman, a periodical which began by expounding the philosophy of the English Arts & Crafts movement but which matured into the voice of the American movement. He worked with architect Harvey Ellis to design house plans for the magazine, which published 221 such plans over the next fifteen years. He also established the Craftsman Home Builders Club in 1903 to spread his ideas about domestic organic architecture.
These ideas had an enormous influence on Frank Lloyd Wright. Stickley believed that:
Between 1900 and 1916 a style of furniture featuring "...a severely plain and rectilinear style which was visually enriched only by expressed structural features and the warm tones...
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