Mission Style Table Plan

A furniture style built with simple, strong horizontal and vertical lines and flat panels that display the grain of the wood, traditionally quartersawn white oak, tracing its origin to a chair made around 1894 by A.J. Forbes for San Francisco's Swedenborgian Church. The style was named and popularized commercially by New York retailer Joseph P. McHugh from around 1898, and became closely associated with the American Arts and Crafts movement, especially through furniture maker Gustav Stickley, who produced solid, upright oak furniture in the style even as he considered the mission name itself misleading, since the design owed little to actual furnishings of the historic Spanish missions the name references.