So in the backseat of my mom's car yesterday is some Utah Design magazine from 2001 [Yeah, I don't know, either], and so I'm flipping through it while waiting forever at a railroad crossing, and see an actual Stickley crib. The Prairie Spindle Crib in quartersawn oak. It was $1850 or so. Looked great, if you're into the Stickley/ Arts & Crafts/ Mission thing [which, I confess, I kind of moved away from a while back. And I like my Frank Lloyd Wright from the Japan trip in the 1920's onward, thanks.]
Anyway, poking around, it turns out Stickley discontinued the Spindle Crib, but fortunately, the craftsfolk of the arts & crafts movement are still going strong, and several replicas and variations are still in production.
No prices mentioned, but Big Hole River Custom Furniture in Missoula, Montana will make you anything in the Stickley catalog for 1/2 retail, they say. Their Mission Crib comes in hand-rubbed cherry. [scroll all the way down.]
The winner for me, at least going by the pictures, is Noriega Furniture's Prairie Spindle Crib [above]. They've improved on the Stickley design by concealing the hardware. It's the kind of detail those hippie yuppie parents in San Francisco would like, I guess.
Or maybe what they'd really do is go with a less hardcore traditional design that keeps the Arts & Crafts humility going. Modern Seed has a maple A&C style crib that was a real temptation for us. At $795, it clocks in at less than half the custom Stickley variations, too. [modernseed has advertised on DT.]
What did catch us off guard, since we stumbled across it the week after we bought our barebones Jenny Lind, was the Arts & Crafts crib from Pacific Rim Woodworking. It was beautiful, the only crib we saw in Manhattan stores [besides Netto] that didn't make me want to get out my planing saw and my tolepaint stripper. Pokkadots has the Pacific Rim crib for just $695. [they're a DT advertiser, too, btw.]
Hi! I love that Noriega Furniture's Prairie Spindle Crib above. Where might I be able to buy it? Or perhaps get the plans to have my hubby build it?
Rachel