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- Limbert Library Table, 1905-1915 - C. P. Limbert Company created affordable Arts and Crafts furniture for the American middle class. This library table displays the simple form and visible construction techniques emblematic of Arts and Crafts furniture. Unlike doctrinaire Arts and Crafts makers, the company applied mass-production techniques to reduce costs, but still manufactured well-designed and well-made furniture.
- 1905-1915
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Limbert Library Table, 1905-1915
C. P. Limbert Company created affordable Arts and Crafts furniture for the American middle class. This library table displays the simple form and visible construction techniques emblematic of Arts and Crafts furniture. Unlike doctrinaire Arts and Crafts makers, the company applied mass-production techniques to reduce costs, but still manufactured well-designed and well-made furniture.
- Limbert Model 158 Double Oval Table, circa 1910 -
- circa 1910
- Collections - Artifact
Limbert Model 158 Double Oval Table, circa 1910
- Arts and Crafts Furniture Making in West Michigan: The Charles Limbert Company of Grand Rapids and Holland - From 1900 to 1910, the Charles Limbert Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, became one of the most varied in production of Arts and Crafts furniture makers.
- May 18, 2021
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Arts and Crafts Furniture Making in West Michigan: The Charles Limbert Company of Grand Rapids and Holland
From 1900 to 1910, the Charles Limbert Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, became one of the most varied in production of Arts and Crafts furniture makers.
- Library Table, Used by Reuben Moore Benjamin, 1850-1880 -
- 1850-1880
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Library Table, Used by Reuben Moore Benjamin, 1850-1880
- Limbert Dresser with Mirror, 1905-1915 - C. P. Limbert Company created affordable Arts and Crafts furniture for the American middle class. This dresser with mirror displays the simple form and visible construction techniques emblematic of Arts and Crafts furniture. Unlike doctrinaire Arts and Crafts makers, the company applied mass-production techniques to reduce costs, but still manufactured well-designed and well-made furniture.
- 1905-1915
- Collections - Artifact
Limbert Dresser with Mirror, 1905-1915
C. P. Limbert Company created affordable Arts and Crafts furniture for the American middle class. This dresser with mirror displays the simple form and visible construction techniques emblematic of Arts and Crafts furniture. Unlike doctrinaire Arts and Crafts makers, the company applied mass-production techniques to reduce costs, but still manufactured well-designed and well-made furniture.
- Library Table, Made 1923, Used by Edsel B. Ford at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory - Sidney Houghton, a high-end interior designer based in London, was commissioned by Henry Ford for a number of projects in the 1920s. In 1924, Houghton furnished Henry and Edsel Ford's personal offices in the newly completed Ford Engineering Laboratory. Houghton designed and fabricated everything for the offices -- from furniture to lighting to textiles -- at his workshops in England.
- 1923
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Library Table, Made 1923, Used by Edsel B. Ford at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Laboratory
Sidney Houghton, a high-end interior designer based in London, was commissioned by Henry Ford for a number of projects in the 1920s. In 1924, Houghton furnished Henry and Edsel Ford's personal offices in the newly completed Ford Engineering Laboratory. Houghton designed and fabricated everything for the offices -- from furniture to lighting to textiles -- at his workshops in England.
- Limberts Holland Dutch Arts and Crafts Furniture, circa 1910 -
- circa 1910
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Limberts Holland Dutch Arts and Crafts Furniture, circa 1910
- Menlo Park Library - This building was built in late 1878 as Edison's work on electric lighting expanded. The first floor provided office space for accounting, bookkeeping, and patent applications; upstairs was a superbly stocked technical library. The building also played another key role: as a reception area for journalists and other visitors it provided a disarming first impression of Edison's success and ambition.
- circa 1879
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Menlo Park Library
This building was built in late 1878 as Edison's work on electric lighting expanded. The first floor provided office space for accounting, bookkeeping, and patent applications; upstairs was a superbly stocked technical library. The building also played another key role: as a reception area for journalists and other visitors it provided a disarming first impression of Edison's success and ambition.
- Noguchi Table -
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Noguchi Table
- Newark Library, 1901-1915 - In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the <em>New York Herald</em>. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.
- 1901-1915
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Newark Library, 1901-1915
In 1890, Jenny Young Chandler, 25 years old and recently widowed, began working for the New York Herald. As a photojournalist and feature writer, Chandler captured life in Brooklyn, New York, and vicinity. By 1922, the time of her death, she had produced over 800 glass plate negatives. Her sensitive, insightful photographs depict people from all walks of life and the world in which they lived.