1920s Spanish Revival Wood & Iron Coffee Table Monterey Del Mar Furniture Style.

Description

Vintage 1920s Spanish Revival coffee table made by McClellan Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles, California.

The coffee table is crafted … more Vintage 1920s Spanish Revival coffee table made by McClellan Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles, California.

The coffee table is crafted from solid Spanish Cedar.

The top is embellished with sixteen black wrought iron square medallions screwed down to the wood, eight across on each side.

Under the top is a brass furniture label stating the table was "Made By The McClellan Manufacturing Company, Los Angeles".

The s-curve shaped apron has been applied to all four sides.

The table is supported by four chamfered square legs.

The feet are turned and ringed over a bun foot.

SIZE: 36" wide x 17" deep x 20.25" high

Coffee table will suit interiors incorporating styles such as Spanish Revival, Spanish Eclectic, Spanish Colonial, Santa Fe, Southwest, Old California, Old West, Old Arizona, Hacienda, Monterey, and Rancho.


ABOUT MCCLELLEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY

McClellan Manufacturing Company filed as a business in Los Angeles and with the California Secretary of State with a capital stock of $20,000 on February 24, 1903. McClellan was listed in the L.A. Business Directory beginning in 1902.

By 1922, McClellan was listed with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce as Picture and Mirror Frame Manufacturers.

In 1925, McClellan awarded a general contract to the Austin Company for a new plant comprising two one-story buildings, 200x235 feet and 50x100 feet, to cost $75,000 and to be built on South Park Avenue. (THE IRON AGE, et al; Volume 115; January 29, 1925; page 397)

In 1946 McClellan was listed as manufacturing wall shelves.

McClellan specialized in Spanish Revival and French Provincial styles in furniture.


DOCUMENTATION

McClellan provided bedroom furniture for the 1927 built Spanish Colonial Santa Barbara Biltmore. See the ad we have included in the photos from ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING, Volume 60, 1928, page 17 which reads:

"Thru W. & J. Sloane, San Francisco, we were privileged to make all the Bedroom Furniture for the new Santa Barbara Biltmore Hotel. This was done under the supervision of Eugene Simons of W. & J. Sloane and Sidney Sterling, Biltmore Decorator. We also made the furniture, thru decorators, for the following:

The Ebell Club, Los Angeles
Chateau des Fleurs, Los Angeles
The Brentwood Country Club, Los Angeles
The Virginia Country Club, Long Beach, Cal.
The Aqua Caliente, Tia Juana, Mexico
The LaQuinta Hotel, Indio, Calif.
The Desert Inn, Palm Springs, Calif.

THE MCCLELLAN MFG. CO.
LOS ANGELES"

The publication also includes photos of The Biltmore Santa Barbara crediting McClellan with providing the bedroom furniture.


A short history of members of the McClellan family in Los Angeles, including historical information about McClellan Manufacturing, was published in Rockwell Dennis Hunt's 1926 book CALIFORNIA AND CALIFORNIANS, Volume 4, page 321. See the image we have included from the page, which reads:

"WILLIAM MCCLELLAN. Members of three generations of the McClellan family have been identified with the founding and development of the McClellan Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of solid mahogany furniture at 951 South Los Angeles Street, a business that is properly rated as one of the solid and substantial concerns of Southern California.

William McClellan, Sr., came to California in 1887, and the following year his son, William McClellan, Jr., came to the state, accompanied by his wife and his son, Thomas Lee McClellan. William, Sr., and William, Jr., immediately engaged in business as manufacturers of picture frames. As the years went by, they expanded and adapted their business to changing conditions, gradually evolving to the modern manufacturing plant devoted to mahogany household furniture exclusively. They aim to produce beautiful designs in mahogany and use only the solid material, making no veneered products.

William McClellan, Jr., was born in Illinois, and lived for a number of years at Union City, Michigan, where he married Harriet Lee. Their son, Thomas Lee McClellan, was born at Union City in 1881. He was a child when brought to Los Angeles, where he was educated in the public schools, and as a young man entered the furniture business and is now secretary, treasurer, and manager of the McClellan Manufacturing Company, of which his father is president.

Thomas Lee McClellan married Violet McClain, daughter of H. A. McClain, who came to California when a young boy with a group of Mormons from Utah and settled at Green Meadows. H. A. McClain was for twenty-nine years a police sergeant in Los Angeles but is now retired. The two daughters of Thomas Lee McClellan are Margery Lee and Mary.

William McClellan is a member of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and he and his son are both members of the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade and Furniture Association."

Of note is that W. McClennan, Jr. and T.L. McClellan both served as presidents of the company, William at the 951 South Los Angeles Street (no longer existing) address and Thomas Lee at the 6700 Avalon Boulevard (still existing and inhabited by a different business), Los Angeles, address.

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