In 1890, well before Stickley produced his recognizable Craftsman furniture, he and his early business partner, Elgin A. Simonds, pursued a manufacturing contract at Auburn State Prison ...

Factories, the visual antithesis of domesticity and handcraft, were fundamental to Stickley’s lifework and development ...

Although purveyors of the Arts & Crafts movement—including Stickley—relied heavily on pre-industrial images and rhetoric to sell their wares, shrewd furniture manufacturers at the turn of the century nonetheless ...

Although often remembered as Stickley’s home in Morris Plains, New Jersey, his Log House was never intended to be a single-family residence ...

Burgeoning transit networks at the turn of the century were essential to the Craftsman enterprise. It is for this reason that Stickley positioned his Eastwood factory on a train spur with immediate access to the West Shore Railroad ...

In many ways, Stickley was the original “influencer.” Not only did his furniture become name-brand in the homes of middle-class Americans, but his intangible ideas about the value of good design ...