Music Cabinet

Designed by Harvey Ellis American
 Manufactured by Gustav Stickley American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774

This mahogany music cabinet, a product of the brief collaboration, from March 1903 to January 1904, between Gustav Stickley and the Prairie School architect Harvey Ellis, departs from the typical Stickley Craftsman furniture in its unusual form, bracket feet, subtle structural detailing, and in the use of marquetry in pendant panels that feature stylized grape clusters and leaves hanging from curling vines. An illustrated article in the January 1904 issue of "The Craftsman," a periodical promoting the Arts and Crafts movement and published by Stickley between 1901 and 1916, carefully explains that inlay was justified here because it emphasized the structural, and particularly the vertical, lines of the object.

Music Cabinet, Designed by Harvey Ellis (American, Rochester, New York 1852–1904 Syracuse, New York), Mahogany, American

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Music Cabinet, Designed by Harvey Ellis (American, Rochester, New York 1852–1904 Syracuse, New York), Mahogany, American
Music Cabinet, Designed by Harvey Ellis (American, Rochester, New York 1852–1904 Syracuse, New York), Mahogany, American

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