Original Arts and Crafts Roycroft oak library table desk No. 75 with two drawers. Original finish, and hand hammered hardware. The top and bottom shelf have use stains from where a plant must have been sitting. 52 inches wide, 33 inches deep and 30 inches high. See Roycroft Furniture and Other Things page 18 to see an example of this desk in the original cataloque.
Vintage D. R. Dimes Benchmark tiger maple table with 2 board porringer corner top. The D. R. Dimes Benchmark series were top of the line - the very finest craftsmanship. The tiger grain is so pronounced the table legs look like zebra legs. This is one of the finest pieces Dimes ever made. Graceful Queen Anne style legs, scalloped aprons with back blocks, chamfered top, wood pin joinery and hand-cut dovetailed drawer. It measures 21 inches square and 27 inches high.
Authentic L J G Stickley Arts and Crafts #1342 1/2 oak armchair in excellent original condition including the leather seat. Please see: The Mission Furniture of L & J.G. Stickley, publ. 1983, edited by Stephen Gray, The Work of L. & J. G. Stickley section, page 181, to see reference to this chair. Height to back 38", height to arms 27", height to seat 18.5", width 25.25", depth 19".
RARE Sir Ambrose Heal Arts and Crafts oak chest #402. English, early 20th century. Excellent original condition. Some minor lip loss on the top drawer. Hand-hammered drawer pulls and hand-cut dovetails. Four graduated drawers with individual dust covers. Please see: Sir Ambrose Heal by Oliver S. Heal, pages 175 and 278, for reference to this exact chest. Only 50 were produced. They were sold from 1904 to 1927. A quote from his grandson's book: "Inspired by the likes of John Ruskin and William Morris, Ambrose Heal transformed the family furnishing business, Heal's of Tottenham Court Road, London, to provide a broad middle-class public with distinctive, well-designed, well-made furniture and furnishings." Heal was progressive and forward-thinking. He encouraged his staff to become employee shareholders, displayed the works of the most avant-garde artists of the time, and commissioned advertising posters from the best graphic designers of the day. Clearly his philosophies tied into his designs and the overall Arts and Crafts design movement. Measures 30 inches wide, 36 inches high and 18.5 inches deep.
Very fine French Louis XVI style bureau plat, or flat top writing desk. Restrained and elegant design, typical of its period counterparts. Two drawers and two extensions. Kingwood with bronze mountings, hand-tooled black leather writing surface and complicated satinwood inlay. Circa 1900. Beautiful condition. Dimensions: 51.5" long, 25" wide, 31.75" high to surface, 24.75" clearance, 16.5" extension each side.