Mission style furniture: chair, drawers, library

Mission style furniture

1880 - 1915

"Mission furniture" traces its origins to a chair made by A.J. Forbes around 1894 for San Francisco's Swedenborgian Church.
The word mission furniture indicates the furniture of Spanish missions throughout colonial California in the late 19th Century. Mission style furniture was primarily built from native American oak in simple horizontal and vertical lines and flat panels accentuating the grain of the wood.
"Mission furniture" is varnished but never painted, with leather and canvas, crafted to be simple and useful. There were no unnecessary lines in "mission furniture", the tenors often pegged for extra strength or used the mortise as a design element.



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Colonial

Shaker


	Library


	Morris chair


	Library


	drawer