Syracuse, N.Y. — Influential inside and product designer Thom Filicia will co-host a fundraiser to learn the restoration of famed furnishings maker Gustav Stickley’s house in Syracuse.
The occasion, which is able to embody cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and a silent public sale, will likely be held from 5:30 to eight:30 p.m. Oct. 6 on the Skaneateles Nation Membership in Skaneateles. Tickets are $250 and could also be bought on-line on the Gustav Stickley Home Basis web site.
Filicia, a Syracuse native and Skaneateles summer time resident, gained nationwide fame as an inside design knowledgeable on Bravo’s “Queer Eye for the Straight Man” sequence.
“Syracuse holds a particular place in my coronary heart, and Gustav Stickley has an extremely necessary legacy as one of many originators of the American Arts and Crafts motion that helped information social change starting within the early twentieth century,” Filicia stated.
Among the many fundraiser’s different hosts will likely be Joanie Mahoney, president of SUNY School of Environmental Science and Forestry, and Aminy Audi, CEO and chairwoman of L. & J.G. Stickley Inc.
Stickley, a number one voice within the American Arts and Crafts motion, purchased the home at 438 Columbus Ave. in Syracuse in 1900. In 1901, after a Christmas Eve fireplace broken the unique inside, he reconstructed the primary and second flooring, creating what is taken into account the primary Craftsman-style residential inside within the nation.
Stickley died in 1942 on the age of 84. His home remained in his household till the Fifties. It was added to the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations in 1984.
The inspiration is elevating cash to show the house into an Arts and Crafts museum and a boutique lodge. Restoration of the house’s exterior was accomplished in 2018.
The inside of furnishings maker Gustav Stickley’s house in Syracuse. (Elizabeth L. Crawford | Crawford & Stearns)
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