The Enlightened Age of Home Furnishings

By ELAINE LOUIE

“Gustav Stickley: The Enlightened Home,” an exhibit of early 20th-century furniture and decorative objects made at the Gustav Stickley Company, opens Tuesday at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.

“Stickley had a huge impact on how people lived,” said Paul D’Ambrosio, the chief curator of the museum. He helped to create “spaces that were easy to move around and easy to maintain.”


In the show are a lightweight tabouret table “that can be carried to any part of the house for any occasion,”

Mr. D’Ambrosio said; a Japonesque dinner gong, below; and a hand-hammered copper tray, above, that holds a cider set from Marblehead Pottery in Marblehead, Mass. Through Aug. 10 at 5798 State Highway 80, Lake Road, Cooperstown, N.Y. Information: (888) 547-1450 or www.fenimoreartmuseum.org.

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