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Gustav Stickley Redesigned From A Morris Chair - Solid Oak Dining Chair - Fine Art Furnishing - Solid Quarter Sawn Oak - Designed From The Historical Record - Made In The Same Hand And Materials As it Was Made In In it's Original Era.- Hand Hewn, Mortis And Tenon Joined -
Built The Old Fashioned Way "When Every Thing Made In America Was Built To Last Forever" And Craftsmen Were Proud To Sign Their Work
- All Species Of Woods Are Available - Structural Frames Using Solid Full Length Timber (no fake laminates, scarf joints or glued up parts,no veneers - no glue ups - no bolt on legs) - Master Craftsmanship That Insures Your Furnishing Will Stand The Test Of Time - A True Family Heirloom And Valuable Antiquity - All Carving Is Hand Carved By Our Master Carvers (no cnc or faux casted resin carving) - Fine Art 10 Process Hand Rubbed Finished To World Class Antique Collectors Standards - ( no spray on faux fast paint jobs )

Master Blacksmiths Solid Hand Forged Wrought Iron - (no castings or hollow faux metals) - All Heat Applied Iron Oxide Hand Patina Finished - (no powder coating or faux paint on iron finishes) - Genuine Natural Stone - Top Grain Leathers (processed American tanneries only ) And Fine Fabrics Also Available - Guaranteed Forever - Order Any Size Or Style- Backed By Our Over Nine Decades Of Fine Craftsmanship Since 1913

Designs By H. J. Nickand Scottsdale Art Factory a handmade in America custom furniture manufacturer based in Scottsdale Arizona has been designing and building some of the worlds finest furniture for some of the world's finest interior designers with ordinary clients as well as most prominent and successful Persons,C.E.O.'s,leaders,royalty and celebrities for the last 97 years. Most of our clients want a furnishing that has a BIG WOW factor and elegance. All want investment value and furnishings that makes a proper statement reflecting their personality or the personality of the environment for witch it is intended.


Hand carved exotic solid old growth woods and burls used along with the perfection of a signature fine art hand rubbed finish lets every one know that this furnishing is special. Each furnishing is made to order and fits the personality of each client. Some times the hand carvings are copied to the design of other fine art collectables or it may be art taken from personal photos,coats of arms etc, that have family meaning etc.


Don't Be Fooled By Our Upscale Appearance. Our prices are usually lower than lesser quality name brand mass production imports, "We Are The Factory," Hand Crafted In America Since 1913.

This Is Not A Foreign Made Mass Produced "Famous Brand Name" Fake Import Impostor.

We Custom Build Fine Art Furniture Residential And Commercial


Solid Exotic American Grown Timber - Built To Family Heirloom Quality - All Of Our Products Are Finished Inside And Out - All Backs Are Finished Same As The Fronts


We Offer All Species Of Solid Woods Important details about our timber and craftsmanship.


Our Factory Designers Are Expert At Manufacturing Our Products And Are Not Salesman.

Our Factory Designers Are Instructed To Educate Allowing A Informed Decision

"When Only The Best Will Do"

Choose From Our Designs Or Use Your Design - We Build To Our Hand Made Standards


All Scottsdale Art Factory Furnishings Are Designed In America and Built In America Using Solid Natural Air Dried Timber, Genuine Stone, Marble, Granite, Fine Leathers, Fabric And Hand Forged Iron. By The Hands Of True American Master Craftsmen.



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Under the supervision of world renowned artist H. J. Nick using only the finest materials. We use "No" engineered cores or faux materials such as paste boards, veneers, masonite, MDO plywood, melamine and oriented strand board panels with expensive wood sounding names such as walnut or hickory veneer etc.

"This Is The Real McCoy."



Purchase American Made - Invest In "Your" Future.

Investment Quality Equals An Appreciable Asset Furnishing, Destined For Antiquity.
We build only proud to own family heirloom furnishing, rich with family history and priceless heritage. This process begins with you and your family personalizing each piece with your own special design requests. H. J. Nick supervises the details and drafting process with his design team, and upon your approval, we then build your product. Once you receive your item, you can enjoy it secure in the knowledge it will increase in value and become a cherished family heirloom that is guaranteed to stand the test of time.


Historical Origin And Design Inspiration

Gustav Stickley and the Arts and Crafts Movement Gustav Stickley (1858 - 1942) didn't start the Arts and Crafts movement. By the time he became involved in the late 1890s, it was a well-established international phenomenon. Within a few years Stickley had become one of its major American figures. His handsome, carefully constructed Craftsman furniture, metalwork, and textiles were successfully sold to an appreciative market, and were widely imitated. His influential Craftsman magazine became a leading national advocate of the movement's ideals. It is impossible today to imagine the American Arts and Crafts without Gustav Stickley.


The movement first stirred to life in Britain in the middle of the 19th century. Its philosophical and intellectual roots grew from several sources, but for Stickley the writings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) were probably the most important. Ruskin was a fierce critic of Britain's burgeoning factory system. He spoke out against the shoddy quality of machine-made goods, and attacked the esthetics of products designed for show instead of function. In Ruskin's view mass production enslaved workers to machines and robbed them of the pleasure of their own labor. To right these wrongs he advocated a return to what he saw as the superior practices of the medieval craft guilds. For Ruskin, a visibly hand-made object had beauty because its irregularities betokened the freedom of the artisan who made it.



In 1861 William Morris (1834 - 1896) founded a firm that put Ruskin's reformist ideas into practice. Morris & Company produced well-designed, and largely hand-wrought, textiles, wallpapers, stained glass, and furniture. Morris was a brilliant pattern maker and craftsman, and, like Ruskin, he valued handwork. In one of his most famous pronouncements on furniture he said: "So I say our furniture should be good citizens' furniture, solid and well made in workmanship.... Also, except for very movable things like chairs, it should be made of timber rather than walking-sticks." Morris spread his ideas through his writings and public speaking, and his magnetic personality attracted many adherents. He began the process of expanding the definition of art to include traditional handicrafts, and helped launch the movement that came to be known as Arts and Crafts.


From the first, Stickley's Arts and Crafts furniture expressed his unique design sense -- his mastery of form, proportion and color. It was "good citizens' furniture," simple, functional, and sturdy, and its decorative effect depended largely on honestly revealed structure. This emphasis on the details of joinery -- tenon-and-key joints, exposed tenons, visible dowels -- celebrated the handmade nature of Stickley's furniture while de-emphasizing the machine processes used in its construction. Stickley's furniture gave the appearance of being hand made in the best Arts and Crafts tradition, and his promotional publications encouraged this view.


But in reality it benefited from the efficiencies of his well-equipped factory. Stickley's apparent duality, the gulf between what he said and what he did, reflected what were actually radical goals. The British Arts and Crafts movement that inspired him, as well as some of the movement's American incarnations, often had an elitist cast. Artfully designed handcrafted goods were affordable only by the wealthy. It was a conundrum that Morris, a sincere Socialist who sold his products to the rich, was never able to solve. Gustav Stickley took seriously the values of the Arts and Crafts, and to them he added his expansive creative vision and his dynamic entrepreneurial verve. He sought to make the movement more inclusive, its products available to a wider public. And he did this with great success.


Stickley's idealist/commercial sense is perhaps most evident in The Craftsman, the magazine he founded in October 1901 and published until December 1916. The first issue was devoted to William Morris, the second to John Ruskin. Stickley began the magazine to promote his furniture and spread his ideas about the Arts and Crafts, but it quickly outstripped this narrow agenda and took up the many themes that concerned the movement. In addition to its profiles of movement figures, The Craftsman attempted to reform popular taste by publishing examples of the "true" in furniture - plain, unadorned, reticent design - and pointedly contrasting it with the "false," the over-ornamented, derivative, poorly-made furniture found for sale in many shops.


It published a series of Craftsman Houses to advance the ideas of rational, unified design in domestic architecture, and to foster Stickley's oft-stated beliefs in self-reliance and the centrality of home and family. The magazine's interest in homes and home life logically led to features on gardening, as means of beautifying the home, providing families with food, and offering a productive use of leisure time. It encouraged the revival of handicrafts with inspiring articles coupled with practical, detailed instructions for working in metal, leather, textiles, ceramics and other media. It published detailed plans showing readers how to construct their own Craftsman-style furniture.


The Craftsman also played an active part in communicating the larger concerns of the Arts and Crafts movement: it addressed environmental issues, supported the back to the land movement, and advocated the simplification of life. It dealt progressively, for its day, with issues concerning women, native Americans, and minority cultures. Starting in 1908, it reported on the development of Craftsman Farms, the Stickley family's New Jersey home, and the culmination of the domestic ideals espoused by The Craftsman. Like so much of what Stickley did, his magazine sprang from commercial impulses, but in transcending these impulses it taught and inspired a generation of artisans, designers, and architects, and reached out to thousands more seeking a simpler way to lead their lives.


Gustav Stickley was an important voice for design reform in his day, and with the well-designed, well-made furniture, metalwork, and textiles of the Craftsman Workshops he created an authentic body of work that has endured. In the pages of The Craftsman magazine, he pursued his commercial purposes guided by a genuinely idealistic desire to improve the lives of others as he had improved his own. Stickley emerged as a leading spokesman of the American Arts and Crafts, and he remains central to its understanding today.


Most Designs Used Today Were Conceived Hundreds Of Years Ago By Some Of The Worlds Most Famous Architects And Designers Working For The Aristocracies And The Well To Do Of Their Period.
Many of these architects and designers are as well known as Leonardo da Vinci (renaissance architecture) or Michelangelo,s (baroque architecture) as well as more recently William Morris, John Ruskin (founders of the Arts and Crafts furniture movement in circa 1800 England) Gustave Stickley (founder of the American Arts and Crafts movement in America circa 1900.) Frank Loyd Wright, Charles and Henry Greene to name a few.


Every Successful Creative Enterprise Is Always Built On A Foundation That Was Laid Down By Its Predecessors.
All creative people are dependent upon the groundwork laid down by those who came before them. H. J. Nick, artist and direct descendant of the Marbella brothers, and Scottsdale Art Factory have built on these foundations and have raised the bar of quality even higher. Thus setting a new standard and offering the finest one of a kind handmade furnishings found anywhere in the world in the 21st century.


Today Our Master Craftsman Build All Of Our Products Using The Identical Methods And Materials Of The Historical Period Of Each Furnishings Design Conception.


All 21st Century Designs Are Also Built By Our Master Craftsman Using These Classic Traditional Methods.


Whether We Build Products For Your Modern Dream Home Or Ancient Castle
every element Is always built to future collectable antiquity investment quality standards and will stand the test of time. Destined to become a part of your families appreciating financial net worth as well as a proud to own legacy heirloom.


We Are A "One Stop Shop".
Many of our clients commission furniture For every room, doors, gates, built-in cabinets, lighting and hardware for their entire project. For Example: We are capable of starting with your entrance door design style or personalized carving coat of arms, family crest or business logo and bring this design in a tastefull elegant way in to you interior and exterior lighting fixtures, entrance doors, Interior doors, cabinets, structural elements, entrance gates or furnishings for every room. Making your home a unique piece of your families tradition and legacy.


Many of the worlds finest builders, architects, interior designers, as well business and home owners choose Scottsdale Art Factory. Due to our large flexiable American work force and our ability to manufacture coinciding with construction deadlines.
Note: We do not import or out source allowing us total control of our supreme quality as well as your production requirements.

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You May Order: This Furnishing Design In Any Size And Material - Made In The Same Hand By Our American Master Craftsman, As It Was Hand Crafted In Its Era . Or Add A Modern Design Twist To Fit Todays Living Styles .

Our Factory Designers Are Expert At Manufacturing Our Products And Are Not Salesman.

Our Factory Designers Are Instructed Educate To Allow A Informed Decision

It Is Our Experiance, Customers Informed And Educated Make SAF Their Choice

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Every surface of this product is fine finished including the under sides and hidden areas. You may choose the natural color or from over 400 standard stain colors, or color match to any stain color from a sample you provide. Most of our finishes are water based and earth friendly. You may order any single color or texture finish at no extra charge. Fine Finish Information: Important details about our finish process: patinas, sealants and wood finishes.

Hand Carving Information: Important details about the kind of carving you can expect when you order from Scottsdale Art Factory.


Colorized Carving. You can order any carving colorized. In order to achieve a colorized carving, multiple stain colors are used. The stains are hand applied and blended with an artistic eye to achieve an enhanced natural appearance.


Our Heritage: Marabella brothers come to America.


All Steel Is Coal Fired, Hammered By Master Blacksmiths The Old Fashioned Way And Patina Finished. At Scottsdale Art Factory, we take pride in our traditional, superior quality workmanship and craft our products from only the finest steel. Our master blacksmiths have been classically trained, and utilize old world techniques such as coal firing, anvil hammering and hand forging to create the finest handcrafted hardware available anywhere. All of our steel work is hand patina finished by heat applying iron oxides to achieve a natural patina finish that will stand the test of time.



Nothing is Drop Forged. We create works The Old Fashioned Way using solid hand forged steel, (drop forging is a poor quality, casted copy of a hand forged work of art). Nothing is wrought iron; wrought iron is simply a softer and less sturdy form of metal that cannot compare to stronger hand forged low carbon steel.


Master Blacksmithing: The kind of hand forged metal work you can expect when you order from Scottsdale Art Factory.


Patina Finish As Shown: Various Colors Of Hand Applyed Iron Oxide Patinas. Our beautiful patina finishes are hand applied using a special patented process where oxides are bonded into the metal at over 1000 degrees. This permanent finish beautifies with age. S.A.F. does not paint or faux finish any of our iron creations. Paint fades, chips and cracks over time and patinas last forever. No Drop Forged Casted Copies. No Paint Or Powder Coated Finishes. limited edition or original works. Every surface of this furnishing is finely finished including the undersides and hidden areas.


Each item is finished to be virtually maintenance free and to age with grace. All steel parts are hand patina finished the old fashioned way by iron oxide hand applied with high temperature heat. We never powder coat or faux paint our steel, it has been proven paint and powder coating methods do not hold up over time. You may choose from many natural iron oxide colors. Our patina finishes are water based and earth friendly. You may order any single color or texture finish at no extra charge.
Fine Finish Information: Important details about our finish process: patinas, sealant and wood finishes.


Order Hand Forged Matching Furnishings Of Any Design.



Our Guarantee: We Guarantee Each Item "Forever" " No Questions Asked, backed by over nine decades of fine craftsmanship.


Our Price Guarantee: Why you may purchase hand made custom at production prices.


Scottsdale Art Factory carries on the American Arts And Crafts Movement of the 21st century, in the same way William Morris and John Ruskin (founders of the Arts and Crafts furniture movement in circa 1800 England) inspired Gustave Stickley (founder of the American Arts and Crafts movement) in America circa 1900. Frank Loyd Wright, Charles and Henry Greene (inspired architects of the ultimate cottages such as the Gamble House in Pasadena California) are credited with raising quality standard to its highest level in their day. All of these great master craftsman also inspired the Marabella Brothers in the early 20th Century (founders of SAF circa 1913).


Every creative enterprise is always built on a foundation that was laid down by its predecessors. Creative people are also dependent on the groundwork laid down by those who came before them. H. J. Nick, artist and direct descendant of the Marbella brothers, and Scottsdale Art Factory have built on these foundations and have raised the bar of quality even higher. Thus setting a new standard and offering the finest one of a kind handmade furnishings found anywhere in the world in the 21st century.


Our Heritage: Marabella brothers come to America.


See Our Blog More about the history of Scottsdale Art Factory and the American furniture movement of the 21st century.


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