Cabinet. Culture: American. Dimensions: 85 1/4 × 42 3/4 × 17 1/2 in. (216.5 × 108.6 × 44.5 cm). Maker: George A. Schastey & Co. (1873-97); George A. Schastey (1839-1894). Date: 1884-85.George A. Schastey (1839-1894) headed one of the principal cabinetmaking and decorating firms of America's Gilded Age. Born in Merseburg, Germany, he immigrated to New York as a young boy in 1849. After fighting for the Union in the Civil War, Schastey took up work in New York's expanding furniture trade with several of the city's leading cabinetmakers and decorators before opening his own business in 1873. At its peak in the early 1880s, George A. Schastey & Co. employed at least 125 people in its workshops. Schastey's distinctive designs are steeped in Renaissance sources with flourishes from the Islamic world.In August 1885, the New York Times reported on Schastey's new showroom at Broadway and West Fifty-Third Street. The published account applauded the firm's stylistic and technical capabilities i

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Cabinet. Culture: American. Dimensions: 85 1/4 × 42 3/4 × 17 1/2 in. (216.5 × 108.6 × 44.5 cm). Maker: George A. Schastey & Co. (1873-97); George A. Schastey (1839-1894). Date: 1884-85.George A. Schastey (1839-1894) headed one of the principal cabinetmaking and decorating firms of America's Gilded Age. Born in Merseburg, Germany, he immigrated to New York as a young boy in 1849. After fighting for the Union in the Civil War, Schastey took up work in New York's expanding furniture trade with several of the city's leading cabinetmakers and decorators before opening his own business in 1873. At its peak in the early 1880s, George A. Schastey & Co. employed at least 125 people in its workshops. Schastey's distinctive designs are steeped in Renaissance sources with flourishes from the Islamic world.In August 1885, the New York Times reported on Schastey's new showroom at Broadway and West Fifty-Third Street. The published account applauded the firm's stylistic and technical capabilities i

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