Northern Furniture Company

The Northern Furniture Company

Furniture with the Northern Furniture Company brand name was manufactured in Sheboygan, Wisconsin between the years 1904 and 1949. The company was originally founded by George B. Mattoon in 1881. The plant grew from a modest start until by 1900 it covered twelve acres and employed some 800 workers. This enterprise was known as the Mattoon Manufacturing Company until the founder’s death in 1904. The name was then changed to [...] Click here to continue reading.

Collection of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

Collection of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

Dr. Arthur M. Sackler was one of America’s most important philanthropists and ardent art collectors. His passion for objects transcended any one category or time period, describing his own interest in art as “a long journey, a spiritual pilgrimage from my roots in the Western arts, a hegira which carried me to the aesthetics of the East.” In a collection that spanned genres from European terracotta and bronze [...] Click here to continue reading.

Studebaker Collection – Garths 11/26/10

The Studebaker Collection of Quaker Hill

For over half a century, Richard and Sue Studebaker have stood as pillars of the Ohio antiques community. Thousands of collectors, scholars, and students have been welcomed to Quaker Hill, the couple’s eighteenth century home in Dayton, to enjoy the Studebaker’s hospitality and their passion for Americana.

Richard and Sue purchased their first antique on their honeymoon in New England in 1952, and within a few years, the [...] Click here to continue reading.

River Bend Chair Company

River Bend Chair Company

River Bend Chair Company was founded in 1986 by Mike Benner, a trained cabinetmaker of high-quality furniture reproducing designs of the 18th and 19th centuries. Produced using traditional construction techniques, River Bend chairs are made of hand-selected hardwoods with pine seats. River Bend Chair Company falls under the umbrella of Benner’s Woodworking in Lebanon, Ohio.

Property from Astor’s Beechwood Estate, Newport, RI

Property from Astor’s “Beechwood” Estate, Newport, Rhode Island

Beechwood Mansion at 580 Bellevue Avenue (famously known as “Millionaire’s Row”) in Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer “cottage” of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Astor, Jr. Mr. Astor purchased the thirty-nine room ocean-front mansion as an anniversary present for his wife in 1880 for $190,941.50.

From 1881 to 1906, Mrs. Astor (nee Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 1831-1908), summered at Beechwood, where, as the creator of [...] Click here to continue reading.

Pebble Hill Foundation

.style1 { margin: 9px; } Property from the Collection of Pebble Hill Foundation, Thomasville, Georgia

Elizabeth Ireland Poe, known as Pansy, was the granddaughter of the Cleveland industrialist Howard Melville Hanna, brother of Marc A. Hanna, the Ohio senator who guided William McKinley to the United States Presidency in 1897. Mr. Hanna purchased Pebble Hill Plantation in 1896. Located just south of Thomasville, Georgia, Mr. Hanna and the following two generations of Hannas [...] Click here to continue reading.

Gray, Thomas A.

Thomas A. Gray

Tom Gray of Old Salem, North Carolina is an heir of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company family fortune. A graduate of the Winterthur program in Early American Culture, Tom curated the corporate collection of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. He partnered with his mother, Anne Pepper Gray, to found the Old Salem Toy Museum. Gray has a long association with the Old Salem Inc. historic restoration, including vice president [...] Click here to continue reading.

Stickley, L&JG – American Furniture Makers – New York

L. and J.G. Stickley & their Furniture.

Leopold and J. George Stickley were brothers of cabinetmaker Gustav Stickley, one of the foremost American craftsmen working in the Arts & Crafts style. They established a furniture shop in Fayetteville, New York, in 1902 near Gustav’s factory and began marketing their “Hand Craft” furniture two years later. The two brothers produced furniture into the 1920′s that closely followed Gustav’s designs and philosophy. This style was known [...] Click here to continue reading.

Roycroft – Arts & Crafts Community 1896 to 1938 – New York

Roycroft – New York Arts & Crafts Community

After visiting William Morris’s Kelmscott community of artisans, charismatic businessman and writer Elbert Hubbard (1856 to 1915) embarked on his own version in East Aurora, New York. His Roycroft community, America’s only Arts & Crafts campus, began in 1895 as a high quality leather bookbindery and publishing house. The name came from two 17th century London printers. The community’s large and prominently displayed mark, the orb [...] Click here to continue reading.

Ellinger, David Y. – American Artist – Pennsylvania Dutch Style

David Y. Ellinger (American, 1913 to 2003)

The following obituary for David Y. Ellinger was published in the May, 2003 issue of the Maine Antique Digest, page 4-A.

“David Ellinger wanted to be remembered as an antiques dealer first, then as a painter,” said Charlie Steinberg, the Abington, Pennsylvania antiques dealer. “He was a very good picker. He found many things now in the Geesey Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and he [...] Click here to continue reading.

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