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Heywood wakefield early american furniture.
During these years high profile designers like russel wright and gilbert rhodes designed for the company churning out heywood wakefield dressers heywood wakefield coffee tables and heywood wakefield bedroom sets.
A mid century modern furniture manufacturer making solid wood furniture in america since 1897.
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Both companies produced rattan and wicker furniture that became very popular during the last quarter of the 19th century as outdoor and conservatory furnishings.
With distinctive curved lines and a sleek look heywood wakefield furniture has found its way into many mid century modern homes.
In its early decades the firm thrived by crafting affordable and hugely popular wicker pieces in traditional and historical styles.
Like herman miller and other iconic mid century modern brands heywood wakefield is best known for the furniture they produced in the 1950 s and 1960 s.
The heywood wakefield company is an american furniture manufacturer established in 1897.
Their main rival the wakefield rattan company began operations in 1855.
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In 1937 streamline maple became streamline modern.
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.
What comes to mind for most of us are the modern pieces produced by the company from roughly the 1930s to the early 1960s.
These are the light blond pieces that are still so recognizable today.
Both companies rivals in their industry produced wicker furniture and rattan furniture for residential and commercial clients.
Most pieces were shown in either amber or bleached finish so if a piece has either of these words stenciled on the back or underside there s a good chance it s an early heywood wakefield.
Although the company started much earlier their iconic blond maple and birch furniture is their most memorable and most important design contribution to furniture history.
Their designs featured subtle atomic architecture yet felt perfectly accessible to virtually any buyer.
Throughout the 1940s an 1950s heywood wakefield furniture sales flourished.
Maple was still used for some furniture but by 1940 heywood wakefield switched exclusively to birch.