George A. Schastey
{{Short description|American cabinet maker and decorator}}
File:Photograph of George A. Schastey & Co., 1681-1683 Broadway MET DP350972 (cropped).jpg, near West Fifty-Third Street (ca 1885) (actual location of the Broadway Theatre)]]
George A. Schastey (1839–1894) was an American Gilded Age cabinet maker and decorator.
Childhood
Schastey was born in Merseburg, Germany (then Prussia), and immigrated to New York with his family in 1849. He was apprenticed as an upholsterer, and served in the Civil War.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Ken|title=Peeking Into the Gilded Age at the Met|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/arts/design/peeking-into-the-gilded-age-at-the-met.html?_r=0|accessdate=June 3, 2016|work=New York Times|date=January 7, 2016}}
After the War he worked for a number of cabinetmakers, including the Herter Brothers. He opened a factory of his own in 1873. He created lavish interiors for the wealthy in New York as well and in San Francisco on Nob Hill. His clients included the "Big Four" railroad magnates, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Jr., Charles Crocker, and Henry E. Huntington. He designed the William J. Graham House in Reno, Nevada.
Schastey's work is exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, among others.[http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/1364-metropolitan-museum-unveils-luxurious-historic-interior-from-amer Metropolitan Museum Unveils Luxurious Historic Interior from America's Gilded Age], ArtfixDaily, November 23, 2015{{cite web|title=Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/artistic-furniture-of-the-gilded-age|website=Metropolitan Museum of Art|accessdate=June 3, 2016}}
Gallery
File:Trade card for George A. Schastey MET DP350973.jpg|Schastey’s newly constructed manufactory, located at 228 West Fifty-Third Street, on a trade card, 1876–79
File:Patent model for adjustable reclining chairs MET DP216175.jpg|Patent model for adjustable reclining chairs, 1873
File:Dressing table MET DP306892.jpg|Dressing table, 1881-1882
File:Architectural woodwork and paneling MET DP369460.jpg|Architectural woodwork, panelong and furniture designed by Schastey, 1881-1882
File:Architectural woodwork and paneling MET DP341704.jpg|Panel, 1881-1882
File:Side chair MET DP364292.jpg|Side chair, 1881-1882
File:Cabinet MET DP341700.jpg|Large cabinet, 1884-1885
References
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Category:American cabinetmakers