American Vintage Wicker Table circa 1910-1920
View Similar Items
American Vintage Wicker Table circa 1910-1920
About the Item
- Creator:Heywood-Wakefield Co. (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 23.25 in (59.06 cm)Diameter: 18.25 in (46.36 cm)
- Style:Art Deco (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1915-1920
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor fading.
- Seller Location:Atlanta, GA
- Reference Number:Seller: 1531stDibs: 1311058612620
Heywood-Wakefield Co.
Created by the 19th-century merger of two venerable Massachusetts furniture makers, Heywood-Wakefield was one of the largest and most successful companies of its kind in the United States. In its early decades, the firm thrived by crafting affordable and hugely popular wicker pieces in traditional and historical styles. In the midst of the Great Depression, however, Heywood-Wakefield reinvented itself, creating instead the first modernist furnishings to be widely embraced in American households.
The Heywoods were five brothers from Gardner, Massachusetts, who in 1826 started a business making wooden chairs and tables in their family shed. As their company grew, they moved into the manufacture of furniture with steam-bent wood frames and cane or wicker seats, backs and sides. In 1897, they joined forces with a local rival, the Wakefield Rattan Company, whose founder, Cyrus Wakefield, got his start on the Boston docks buying up lots of discarded rattan, which was used as cushioning material in the holds of cargo ships, and transforming it into furnishings. The conglomerate initially did well with both early American style and woven pieces, but taste began to change at the turn of the 20th century and wicker furniture fell out of fashion. In 1930, the company brought in designer Gilbert Rohde, a champion of the Art Deco style. Before departing in 1932 to lead the Michigan furniture maker Herman Miller, Rohde created well-received sleek, bentwood chairs for Heywood-Wakefield and gave its colonial pieces a touch of Art Deco flair.
Committed to the new style, Heywood-Wakefield commissioned work from an assortment of like-minded designers, including Alfons Bach, W. Joseph Carr, Leo Jiranek and Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky, a Russian nobleman who had made his name in Europe creating elegant automotive body designs.
In 1936, the company introduced its “Streamline Modern” group of furnishings, presenting a look that would define the company’s wares for another 30 years. The buoyantly bright, blond wood — maple initially, later birch — came in finishes such as amber “wheat” and pink-tinted “champagne.” The forms of the pieces, at once light and substantial, with softly contoured edges and little adornment beyond artful drawer pulls and knobs, were featured in lines with names such as “Sculptura,” “Crescendo” and “Coronet.” It was forward-looking, optimistic and built to last — a draw for middle-class buyers in the Baby Boom years.
By the 1960s, Heywood-Wakefield began to be seen as “your parents’ furniture.” The last of the Modern line came out in 1966; the company went bankrupt in 1981. The truly sturdy pieces have weathered the intervening years well, having found a new audience for their blithe and happy sophistication.
Find a collection of vintage Heywood-Wakefield desks, chairs, tables and other furniture on 1stDibs.
- Art Deco Wicker TableBy Heywood-Wakefield Co.Located in New York, NYSplit reed, stick wicker, twisted paper Art Deco table. Great style and condition, please view the matching pieces we have listed from this large set.Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco End Tables
MaterialsPapercord, Wicker
$1,200 - Vintage Wicker TableLocated in Pasadena, CALooking for a small table with charm and interest? This vintage wicker table has been newly painted in a soothing blue/grey finish and is ready...Category
Mid-20th Century Side Tables
MaterialsLinen, Wicker
- Black Lacquered Table, circa 1910sLocated in Douglas Manor, NYBlack lacquered and gilded wood table with triple columns base with pie-crust top and brass.Category
Early 20th Century Side Tables
MaterialsWood
$1,250 Sale Price25% Off - Vintage American Metal Garden Side Table, circa 1950Located in Napa, CAVintage American metal garden side table, circa 1950. Table surface painted white with thick crackling. Legs are painted white as well, with layer of green revealed below. Tabletop a...Category
Vintage 1950s American Patio and Garden Furniture
MaterialsMetal
- Wicker & Brass Cube Tables, circa 1960Located in Rochester, NYPair of fiber rush wrapped cube form side tables / end tables with decorative brass fittings at top / bottom corners and recessed smoked glass tops. All original nicely aged vintage ...Category
Mid-20th Century Campaign End Tables
MaterialsBrass
$450 / set - Carved Side Table, France, circa 1910Located in Chorzów, PLCarved table, France, circa 1910. Very good condition. Wood: oak Dimensions: Height 75 cm, diameter 75 cm.Category
Vintage 1910s French Gothic Revival Side Tables
MaterialsOak
$962 Sale Price20% Off