This Shaker rocker and side table show off the style’s essential design elements including the ladderback and brightly colored cloth tape seat on the chair and straight gently curved legs of both pieces. “Do your work as if you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow.” The above [...]

  The brothers Stickley began furniture making in 1877 in Brandt, Pennsylvania.  Since 1900 the Stickley philosophy has been “living in harmony with nature” and what a befitting tribute to write this blog on Earth Day. Leader of the Arts & Crafts Movement, Stickley furniture is most commonly known as “Mission Style”.  It was designed [...]