Styles range from traditional mission to bungalow and most pieces are available in solid cherry or quarter sawn oak.
Arts and crafts style furniture characteristics.
It lasted from about 1890 to 1920 and was a style prominent in america in the u s in a country that praises democracy the movement was most appealing to the middle class.
Chilton celebrates american craftsmanship with its line of arts crafts furniture.
In general furniture done in the arts and crafts style is very rectilinear meaning it has many straight lines often with an emphasis on.
Simple straight line construction in mission style joinery is exposed showing the skill and precision required to assemble a piece.
Appearance of arts and crafts movement furniture.
Furniture maker gustav stickley first produced arts and crafts furniture often referred to as being in the mission style though stickley disdained the name.
Well constructed arts and crafts furniture is made using mortise and tenon joinery where a projecting tenon fits perfectly into a mortise opening say where a leg meets a crossbar with as little nailing and gluing as possible.