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1873: Company is rporated as Berkey & Gay. 1876: Berkey & Gay is one of three Grand Rapids pani to w an award for s display at the Philalphia Centennial Exposn. 1911: Berkey & Gay acquir Oriel Cabet Co.

Are merged wh Berkey & Gay as the Consolidated Furnure Compani. Of Chigo acquir Berkey & Gay’s $10 ln assets, cludg 5 Grand Rapids plants wh 1.

1931: Sal cle sharply; Berkey & Gay forced to clare bankptcy. 1935: Berkey & Gay re-opens unr new management.

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Gay, the son of an early partner the bs, Gee Gay, beme a proment lear of both the pany and the muny, and sat on the boards of m any banks and civic anizatn. Cabetmaker John Frohberg (or Froburgh) may have created signs for Berkey & Gay the early 1870s.

John Keck of Ann Arbor, Michigan, signed Renaissance Revival, Neo-Grec, and Eastlake-style piec on ntract for Berkey & Gay the 1870s. Frerick Koskul and John Mowatt signed for Berkey & Gay between 1877 and 1879. Arthur Kirkpatrick, who grew up Grand Rapids, received formal art trag before he beme a signer at Berkey & Gay.

Adrian Margant signed piec Goln Oak and Colonial styl for Berkey & Gay om 1898 until his ath 1914. Many Berkey & Gay signs required a nsirable amount of hand craftsmanship, so the pany cultivated large partments of rvers and rators. Some cludg Fred Weber and Chris Haraldstadt, grew up Ameri but me om regns of Germany and Norway that were known for their rvg tradns, and worked for forty years or more at Berkey & Gay.

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Others, like Florente master rver Leopold Baillot, and Japane rator Fugi Nakamiso, were reced through Amerin foreign embassi to brg their experience overseas, to work for Berkey & Gay. Bee of the pany’s size and longevy, llectors seem to enunter Berkey & Gay products more equently than those of any other Grand Rapids pany. Berkey & Gay palized on the public’s tert whole su of “sus” of furnure, which clud everythg need for bedrooms and dg rooms.

In fact, Berkey & Gay’s products of this perd have bee synonymo wh the term “Grand Rapids furnure” the mds of many llectors. It also noted that Berkey & Gay did not make s own parlor am, but purchased them om Holton & Hildreth of Chigo, then pleted the upholstery for s own retail tra.

1890 – 1915: As nsumer style preferenc changed, so did Berkey & Gay, but the feelg of massivens and strength s furnure remaed. Berkey & Gay’s Goln Oak piec have very high relief their rvg, which ranged om grottoque fantasy creatur to swirlg French flourish. A few Arts and Crafts style su were troduced the first of this century unr nam like “English Morn, ” but generally speakg Berkey & Gay passed on the whole movement.

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1915 – 1931: The era between World War I and the Great Deprsn was Berkey & Gay’s zenh of productn.

Upholsterg was spun off to subsidiari like Wallace Upholstery and Grand Rapids Upholstery, so Berkey & Gay ncentrated on livg room and bedroom su.

1934 – 1948: Berkey & Gay had ventured to Morn or Art De signs before was closed 1931, and ntued to produce both “tradnal and morn” l when re-opened. Popular enzy over the novel and movie Gone Wh the Wd spired Berkey & Gay’s “Old South Le” the late 1930s. Both the Grand Rapids Public Mm and the Grand Rapids Public Library have large llectns of advertisg piec and pany histori as well and tra talogs om Berkey & Gay.

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