Category talk:Craftsman furniture
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Merge to Category:Craftsman furniture as a duplicate. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:56, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
- Hello! that plan would be fine with me, though when I created the category I was trying to capture something a bit broader. The "Gustav Stickley" article on Wikipedia (English) says this: [he formed] "Stickley Brothers & Company in 1883" . . . "In the summer of 1900 he worked with Henry Wilkinson and, possibly, LaMont A. Warner (soon his first staff designer) to create his first Arts and Crafts works." So it appears that he created furniture for 17 years before starting his Craftsman style. Anyway, as I say, your plan would be fine with me. cheers, and best wishes for the holidays, Daderot (talk) 19:40, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
- @Andy Dingley and Daderot: Daderot's concern seems legitimate, but maybe only if we have images of anything produced between 1883 and 1900. Is that the case? - Themightyquill (talk) 21:44, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
- What is "Stickley furniture"? If we can't define this (even by inventing a definition), we shouldn't have a category for it.
- There are (at least) four or five possible meanings for "Stickley furniture": Early Gustav, Craftsman Gustav, late Gustav and the work of L & J.G Stickley (which might get further divided by age). Then there are the innumerable copyists.
- Only one of these is notable. If it wasn't for the pure Craftsman period work by Gustav and Harvey Ellis, we wouldn't even be here. The other "Stickley" works (such as File:Armchair, designed by Timothy A. Conti, made by Stickley Brothers Co., c. 1901, oak with fruitwood inlay - De Young Museum - DSC00711.JPG or the hideous File:Armchair MET DP216214.jpg) are perhaps notable now, but only as a result of inheriting this notability (see en:WP:NOTINERIT); when the good stuff is so sought after, even the other junk gets collected.
- We should put real Craftsman furniture into Category:Craftsman furniture, nowhere else, and with nothing else in there (possibly accurate later copies of designs, as made by L&JG and others today). I don't much care what we do with the others, although trying to find a definition for "Stickley" would be a good start. As we have a few images of non-Craftsman Stickley then I guess they have to go somewhere. We definitely shouldn't have the good stuff (like File:Gustav Stickley. Dropfront Desk, ca. 1903..jpg or File:Gustav stickley, credenza n. 814, usa 1905 ca.jpg) in categories such as Category:Stickley furniture or Category:Arts and Crafts Movement furniture either as well as (or instead of!) Category:Craftsman furniture. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:28, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
No strong opposition. Redirected to Category:Craftsman furniture -- Themightyquill (talk) 07:39, 28 May 2021 (UTC)