| With great care the
craftsman runs their skilled hands over the chair they have just built.
Their fingers communicate with the wood, telling them things even their
trained eyes cannot detect. Only when they are certain that each surface,
every joint is perfectly crafted and finished, will they then affix the
Stickley shopmark to the piece. That's how it is today at
Stickley, and
that's how it was when the company began.
The Inside Story
The beauty of a piece of fine furniture emanates from its very core.
For 100 years, New York-based
Stickley Furniture has designed its
collections with this simple premise in mind. Certainly designs have been
modified over the century to keep pace with changing tastes and
traditions, but the craftsmanship of a
Stickley piece remains superior.
Stickley's Traditional Collection includes furniture of the Queen Anne,
Chippendale and Hepplewhite periods. Its 21st Century and Metropolitan
transitional lines meet the millennium in savvy style. And its new
Directoire Collection reflects the furniture movement of late-eighteenth
century France from fussy and intricate to clean and contemporary.
Of course, the pinnacle of
Stickley's fine furniture collections
remains its Mission Oak line. First introduced in 1905 as "simple
furniture built along mission lines," the collection helped set
the standard in fine American woodwork for the entire furniture industry.
It exemplifies
Stickley's commitment to crafting timeless furniture
fashions using yesterday's design ideas retooled for today's lifestyles.
As with every piece of
Stickley furniture, the Mission Oak line is a
work of art from the inside out, beginning with the selection of the
finest quartersawn white oak available. Because quartersawing yields only
a limited number of knot-free boards from each log, the top grade wood is
in extremely high demand. Moreover, each piece is created using
Stickley's
unique and time-honored construction techniques:
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Hidden
dovetailed cross rails for self-locking strength. |
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Tenons
and keyed tenons for strength and durability. |
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Glass
placement secured with quarter rounds and mitered for a perfect fit. |
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Bed
rail construction that eliminates wobble or rock. |
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Resawn
and book matched door panels for grained panels on all pieces. |
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Side-hung
and center guided drawers for proper alignment and suspension. |
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Quadralinear
posts for distinctive construction that displays the oakÕs ray
flake. |
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Ship
lap planking for beauty and character. |
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Finishing
by hand rubbing to achieve depth and clarity. |
As the company celebrates 100 years of quality furniture making, look
for the legendary
Stickley crafting techniques in all of its furniture
collections. Verbarg's Furniture is Cincinnati's exclusive dealer of
Stickley's fine furniture collections. Please stop in our Cincinnati
Kenwood or Amelia store to see the latest styles from
Stickley. To see all the products
Stickley offers, please visit
Stickley's website. |
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