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Fashionable Furniture
Exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis,
April 31st to December 1st, 1904
Manufadured by
NELSON-MATTER FURNITURE COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Michigan, U. S. A., Makers of Fine Bed
Room and Dining Room Furniture in Suites to Match
Copyright, 1904,
By Nelson-Matter Furniture Co.,
Grand Rapids, Midi.
DEAN-HICKS
PRESS
GRAND RAPIDS
MICHIGAN
Fashionable Furniture
'HE furniture illustrated herein, and on display at this exposition,
was selected from the regular lines of the Nelson-Matter Furniture
Company, one of the oldest and largest of the factories that have
made Grand Rapids famous in the furniture world. It is not "show
pieces," designed for a special purpose, and differs not at all from
the ordinary output of the factory. The object is to show that a
vast American factory, with its elaborate sub-division of labor, its specialization of
skill, the substitution of mechanical for hand labor wherever possible, and the great
output, not only materially cheapens the cost of fine furniture, but also lends itself to
a superior style of internal as well as external finish in the medium and better grades.
In design, material, construction and finish it excels the so-called hand-made furniture.
Indeed, it is the combination of original designs, with attentive skill in construction
and finish, that has awarded us the superior position in furniture circles.
No. llfiS. Ijouis XV. Crntfh Maliosany.
No. 1 U>5. Ijouis XV. C'loti'h Mahi'Sjany.
No. 1214. Louis XVI. Crotch Mahogany.
No. 1314. I^oiiis XVI. ('rntoli Mahogany.
No. 1237. Enii)irc (^ilnnial. C^rotch Mnlioe
No. 1237. Empire Colonial. Crotch Mahogany.
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No. 1234. Louis XV. Crotch Mahogany.
Xo. 1234. Louis XV. Crotch Mahogany.
No. 1332. Louis XVI. Crotch Mahogany.
No. 1232. I-iOUis XVI. Crotch Mahogany.
No. 1215. Colonial. Crotch Mahogany.
No. 1215. Colonial. Crotch Mahogany.
No. 1238. Ivouis XV. Crotch Maliogaiiy.
No. 12^8. I.ouis XV. Crotch Mahogany.
No. I'i04. Einpii-p Colonial. Crotch Mahogany.
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No. rjOI. ICiii|iire I'olonhil. Crotili Malinga
No. I'iO.i. Colonial. Figured Crotch Mahogany.
No. VlO.i. f'nlonial. FiKiUPd Crotch Malins:an>
No. 1061. Colonial. Mahogany.
No. lOGI. Colonial. Mahogany.
No. H-Z5. Colonial Dining S-!uite. Figured Crotch Mahogany.