With a recent post about the Jamestown Lounge Co., in reply to a really old post about this company (in an inappropriately titled thread), I'm copying and pasting these together (and deleting the reply in the old thread) and adding a bit at the bottom, to start a new thread - sounds confusing but it works

Carol Digel
Junior Member
Posted 01-03-01 10:45 AM
I am looking for information about a furniture designer named Herman DeVries. He worked for the H. T. Cushman Company in Bennington, Vermont. For Cushman he introduced a line of Colonial Creations and Modern Creations in the early 1930's.
De Vries also designed British Oak and Feudal Oak furniture for the Jamestown Lounge Company in Jamestown New York in the late 1930's.
De Vries was from Holland. He was foremost a designer of craft type furniture.
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<Walt Ahland>
Posted 07-30-06 03:20 PM
We are preparing to list on E-Bay a folding top table that sounds like a table you may be interested in. It has a brass plaque on the inside that says: "signed by Jamestown Lounge". It is an Feudal Oak piece with a folding top. The base has a storage cabinet. Pictures will be posted and inquiries may be made by contacting me at: wahland@cox.net
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I have this company listed in my database as one of the companies that was part of the 'revival' of sorts in the 30's (also recently discussed re Monterey style furniture) that made beefy oak furniture with some medieval twists - the listing is:

Jamestown Lounge Co.
• Jamestown, N.Y., late 1800s–1970s?
• “Lacka-tan” leather chairs, rockers, sofas, “Feudal Oak” line from late 1930s to 1950s and “British Oak” (date unknown) line w/medieval/Mission style in some pieces

I'm not sure what they did from the late 1800s to the 1930s. This is not the same company that made copy cat pieces of Rohlfs work in the principal Arts & Crafts period - this company was called the Jamestown Furniture Co., as far as I've been able to decipher.