An Arts & Crafts Mission School Oak Coffee Table by Stickley Furniture. A very pleasingly but elegant design, in the classic Mission style, made with impeccable attention to detail. Stickley Mission furniture is very difficult to source in the UK. The quality of materials and workmanship mean that, treated with care, the table will last many lifetimes, and still look amazing. Featuring:

• Solid American White Oak throughout.

• Very well figured quarter-sawn Oak (quarter-sawing is a way of sawing oak to produce boards with superior strength which also reveals decorative 'medullary rays' in its grain).

• Square top made out of fove continuous pieces of very well figured quarter-sawn solid timber with button screwed fixing cleated end with exposed dowels exposed through tenons and butterfly joints.

• Square section legs.

• Lower shelf with keyed tenon joints.

Approximate dimensions are:

• Overall Height 460mm (1 foot 6 inches).

• Shelf Height 160mm ( 6 1/4 inches).

• Overall Width 980mm (3 feet 2 1/2 inches).

• Overall Depth 980mm (3 feet 2 1/2 inches).

2008.

Stickley oval shopmark brand and metal "Mission Medallion" (Adopted in 1985 and 1989 respectively).

Very good condition with tight joints and tidy finish. A few minor marks and dints discoverable upon close inspection, although less than expected. If you wish to have further specific photographs or talk to us for a more detailed condition report then please do not hesitate to contact us.

L. & J. G. Stickley was founded in 1902 by Leopold and John George Stickley after having worked with their brother Gustav. They drew their inspiration form many of his designs. Their furniture was designed to be honest; a reaction against the fake joinery, unnecessary gaudiness, and shoddy workmanship of mass production. It all uses solid construction, "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" joinery, and the highest quality woods combined with elegant designs, that are beautiful to look at, practical, exceedingly strong and long-lasting.

The most British of woods, that can produce really special results. Oak has been used for hundreds of years to construct everything from sea-going vessels to fine furniture. Quarter sawn boards are very straight grained and have distinctive growth rings and medullary rays that give a very beautiful effect as well as being renowned for their superior stability and strength.

Arts and Crafts Mission School furniture is designed with clean simple elegant lines and panels that accentuate the grain of the wood (often quartersawn oak) and show off the craftsman involved in making them. Founded in America when people were looking for alternatives the excesses of Victorian times and the influx of mass-produced furniture from the Industrial Revolution. Gustav Stickley, L. & J.G. Stickley (Gustav Stickley's brothers) and Charles Limbert are probably the best known makers, with their work all being to a very high standard and is now highly sought after.