Stickley

[stik-lee]

noun

1. Gustav 1858–1942, U.S. furniture designer, architect, and leader of the Arts and Craft Movement in America.

Example Sentences

“We have planned houses from the first that are based on the big fundamental principles of honesty, simplicity, and usefulness,” wrote Stickley in his 1909 book, “Craftsman Homes: Architecture and Furnishings of the American Arts and Crafts Movement.”

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Soon Craftsman, its name derived from Stickley’s magazine, had spread around the country, and in California, no Craftsman architects were more dominant than Pasadena’s own Greene and Greene, whose extraordinary Gamble House is one of the most popular home museums in the state.

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American designers and architects soon imported these ideals, led by the likes of designer Gustav Stickley, with his Craftsman Farms complex in Morris Plains, N.J., and his popular magazine, the Craftsman, and artist, writer and entrepreneur Elbert Hubbard, whose Roycroft Artisan Community in upstate New York would become a spiritual and architectural template for the movement.

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"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.

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

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