Ohio - Children s Furniture

Vintage Hitchcock or Boston style spindle back children's rocking chair. Black with gold trim and stenciled back.

"An exquisite pair of antique French Louis XVI Neoclassical bed frames by Robert W. Irwin Furniture Company, Circa 1928-1940. Crafted from satinwood featuring turned and fluted columns, artichoke finials, fluted head and footboard and turned tapered feet. The headboards have an eye catching matchbook veneer design fitted with a rectangular molding. At the ripe age of 23 Robert Irwin...

"Pair of 1930s-40s Davis Cabinet Company Twin Beds. Made from mahogany featuring Georgian / Chippendale styling. Includes a ""riddle-back"" which is woven and pierced. This design was developed in the 18th century and is now commonly referred to as a ribbon back. Davis Cabinet Company began as the dream of one man, Lipscomb ""Lip"" Davis, and as is the case with most dreams, this one ---- the impractical idea of building fine furniture from solid wood ---- was thought to be an impossibility. Wood, like steel and iron and most other substances, expands and contracts with climate changes. Furniture built of solid wood must of necessity rack itself to pieces through the inexorable changes of expansion and contraction. Lipscomb Davis thought otherwise. His personal philosophy might be expressed as ""Anything can be accomplished if it is done correctly"", and to this end he had already conceived and engineered a startling new concept of free floating construction that would allow the solid wood case construction to move at will . . . . naturally . . . and thereby avoid the stresses of climatic change. The opportunity to test the idea came dramatically in 1929. While Davis Cabinet Company was formed in 1929, it really had its beginnings around the turn of the century as a sawmill located near Fifth Street on the banks of the Cumberland River. The mill produced lumber from logs rafted down the river from neighboring forests. A ready market existed for most of the high grade lumber turned out by the mill. But, in order to utilize their entire production, the enterprising mill owners formed a subsidiary business, Standard Furniture Company. Here, they manufactured primarily veneered bedroom suites and sewing machine cabinets...

Antique red wicker barrel back child or doll sized rocking chair with attached pink floral cushion.

Antique Victorian pressed back oak stroller convertible to a high chair, with metal wheels, cane seat, and flip up tray. Stroller - 34” x 16.75” x 31.5” / Seat Height - 12.5” / Hi...

Antique Victorian Eastlake childs rocker featuring caned and needlepoint design with turned and fluted accents.  

Antique Victorian childs roll top writing desk featuring three drawers, a half cylinder roll top and interior cubbies. Measures: 30" x 14.5" x 33" H...

Antique hand turned spindle rocking cradle or bassinet. Made from walnut with a beautiful shape and form. 29.5" x 39" x 28"h, sleeping height 13.5"...

"Pair of antique Johnson Furniture Company twin size bed frames. Made of walnut featuring French Neoclassical styling with carved fluted and twisted accents with carved floral, ribbon and shell motifs. Johnson Furniture Co. 1908 - 1983, Grand Rapids, Michigan Successor to Cabinetmakers Co.; Predecessor to RoseJohnson, Inc. PERSONNEL Johnson Furniture was founded by three brothers who emigrated from Sweden in 1887: Carl (who had received a medal for his cabinetmaking skills from the King of Sweden), Hjalmar, and Axel. Tom Handley, who got his start at the prestigious firm of Waring and Gillow in London, became their in-house designer in 1908 and joined them as an officer in 1922. He continued to hold both positions until his untimely death in 1926. Handley established Johnson and Johnson-Handley-Johnson as major producers of high-quality, period revival, residential furniture. The nature of Handley’s designs required the skills of hand craftsmen like Bohemian-born carver Joseph Heyda, and Austrian-born Frank Davidhazy, Sr., who created the floral, figural and classical designs that were painted on the surfaces of some case pieces. David Robertson Smith, designer of Stickley Brothers Arts and Crafts lines, led Johnson into the production of Art Deco and Modern lines in 1928. The company later claimed that this was the first complete line of “modern” furniture produced in the United States. Lorenzo (Renzo) Rutili served as head of design from 1933 into the 1960s. He personally designed groups in the Modern and Neoclassical repertoires, and oversaw the contracted design of lines by a “Who’s Who” of famous Modern designers, including Paul Frankl, Eliel Saarinen, and J.Robert F. Swanson and Pipsam Swanson. When Earl Johnson retired and the family sold the company in 1963, it was purchased by a group of investors led by James Van Oosten. Milo Baugham and Kipp Stewart designed lines of residential furniture, which Johnson produced for Directional Industries between 1963 and 1968. After being owned by Holiday Inns, Inc. between 1968 and 1975, the company returned to the ownership of Van Oosten and company. PRODUCTS Generally speaking, Johnson produced wood residential furniture for the bedroom, while the Johnson-Handley-Johnson label was used to dining suites, occasional tables, and case pieces for the hall and library. Pieces produced between 1908 and about 1920 were designed in period revival styles, especially Sheraton, Hepplewhite, and Empire, and in a combination of European and American Revivals including Colonial, William and Mary, Jacobean, Queen Anne, French Provincial, Chinese Chippendale, and painted Italian or Venetian, from circa 1920 to 1935. Most notable are pieces designed by Tom Handley, which feature intricate marquetry designs and elaborate carving. Some of his most unusual designs are adaptation of classical Egyptian furniture, introduced in the early 1920s to capitalize upon popular fascination with contemporary archeological discoveries. The 1928 introduction of the Art Deco “Dynamique” line by D. Robertson Smith, with its exotic wood veneers and forms reminiscent of Frankl’s “skyscraper” bookcases, began a long period in which the company concurrently produced both modern and revival lines. Renzo Rutili selected traditional master works from museum collections across the country for reproduction in the 1938 American Museum Group. A sharp contrast to these reproductions came only a year later, when Johnson introduced a modular system for the home known as “Flexible Home Arrangement...

"Pair of mid century Georgetown Galleries early American style solid cherry twin bed frames sold by Woodward & Lothrop department stores. Circa 1946 - 1954. Item 340-572. Georgetown Galleries Georgetown Galleries furniture...

Early 20th century late Victorian American Oak child's stepback cupboard. Features an engraved backsplash, blue interior, brass hardware, two drawers and 2 cabinets for storage. Meas...

Mid 20th century child's size school desk and chair. Made from maple. Includes 3 drawers and pullout writing surface. Measures: desk 27" x 1...