Gustav Stickley
'This well-illustrated book is essential reading for students of design history and an inspiration for designers and makers.' Times Higher Education Supplement ' ... handsome large-format and well-illustrated volume' The Art Newspaper 'This gorgeous book is the first comprehensive account of the life and work of the father of the American Arts & Crafts movement.' Antiques Magazine 'well-documented and extensively illustrated ... makes use of a number of untapped sources ... The book not only offers many new facts and insights into Stickley's life and his designs, it also provides a very useful biographical collaborators. ... Cathers has added much to our understanding of the man himself.' The Burlington Magazine 'As the first comprehensive and authoritative account of Stickley's life and works, the volume, by David Cathers, can be valued as much for its historical content as its aesthetic quality.' American Style 'The furniture of Gustav Stickley long has been recognized as occupying a high place in the American Art & Crafts movement and has been collected for decades. Still, only now, more than 60 years after his death, is there a text that comprehensively treats his achievements. It brings together images from The Craftsman, the seminal magazine Stickley founded, with contemporary color photographs of individual pieces of furniture to complement the first detailed account of his life and art. The period photographs are indispensable, and readers who are strangers to Stickley's world will find especially helpful the appendix that provides brief biographies of his creative collaborators.' The Chicago Tribune 'If you are interested in Arts & Crafts then, with no qualifications whatsoever, you simply must own this book. Period.' The New York-Pennsylvania Collector