Solid Painted Mahogany Desk/Table & Chair by Tobey Hand Made Furniture (1940s)

  
This petite desk/table and chair is from the 1940. Both are in excellent condition! Contact me from a list of shippers. Dimensions: Desk 20w x 14d x 30h Chair 28.5 seat back height, chair width 15, chair seat depth 12, seat height 18. The Tobey Furniture Company of Chicago, Illinois was founded in 1856 by Charles Tobey only about a year after he left Boston for Chicago to sell furniture for a Boston company that would soon go bankrupt.

The company continued to grow in the 1860s, doing quite well in the economic upswing that took place at the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1865, the Tobey brothers joined forces with F. By 1868, the Thayer and Tobey partnership proved so successful that a new store was opened on Chicago's fashionable State Street. In addition to the mission furniture the company would eventually become known for in the Arts and Crafts movement, Tobey Furniture Company also produced Louis XIV, XV, and XVI -style reproductions and, beginning in 1901, Art Nouveau furniture. The Art Nouveau designs "echoed the exuberant curvilinear lines and organic forms embodied in the distinctive (Art Nouveau) furniture then being shown in France and Belgium".

By the mid 1920s, the company was producing French Art Moderne pieces. Apparently able to survive the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and both World Wars, but not the Baby Boom and rock and roll, Tobey Furniture ceased operations in 1954.