Who touches this, touches a man.
“I believe that the keynote of life is work, and that upon the honesty of work depends all that is worthy and lasting in art and life.”
~ Walt Whitman
After a much needed hibernation, I'm making
The Craftsman Furniture Dressing again.
If you need to stock up or re-stock, email me directly at TheCraftsman@TheCraftsman.com. $30.00 per pint can plus shipping. Minimum order two cans.
I'll give you the total based on weight and zip code.
Payable only by check.
Happy Spring Cleaning!
~Ron Cosser
The dressing is not a polish.
It’s based on a formulation that’s over 130 years old—the time frame of the Arts & Crafts movement—and created by finishers—Craftsmen. The dressing removes the hand oils, fingerprints, trapped dust, and the dirt of time—at the same time revealing the colors and feeding the finish. There’s no wax and no silicone! It does not make your furniture shiny like a glazed donut.
What is “dressing?” Furniture dressing CLEANS furniture—and with that comes a restoration of the original finish.
When I was young and first in business, I used the term “dressing” when talking to customers. There was confusion—and humor. Salad Dressing? I knew it was truly dressing, but I “caved” and started to call it polish. This was a term most people identified with. But we know it is truly a dressing—meant to clean and enhance furniture.
For 50 years we have repaired and restored the furniture made by Gustav Stickley, L&J.G. Stickley, Stickley Bros., Limbert, Harden, J.M. Young—and countless others in our shop in Eastwood, NY—making our own colors to match—as well as making custom furniture.
And in the 60 years I’ve been involved with furniture, I’ve never seen anything that cleans and feeds furniture finishes as well as our The Craftsman Furniture Dressing.
We’ve sold thousands of cans to people like you: homeowners, collectors, antique dealers, curators, and auction houses (Sotheby’s in particular). But our proudest achievement is with the repeat customers (sometimes multi-generational) who have returned time and time again confident in the knowledge that The Craftsman Furniture Dressing is the only product they will use on their furniture. Nothing else will do.
For any sceptics, please see a graphic illustration of before and after. This chair had traveled across most of the US in the back of a pickup truck, open bed, no cover. Wind, rain, etc.
The owner used The Craftsman Furniture Dressing to clean the chair and bring back the finish. Nothing else. He was thrilled.
A few months ago, I found a signed Gustav Stickley child’s chair on eBay. It looked pretty awful and had clearly been ignored for years. Other customers passed on it. It was a bargain. I knew that our dressing would bring out the finish that was still there.
To demonstrate how well this dressing works, we made a couple of YouTube videos. This also shows me cleaning kitchen cabinets. Don’t laugh. Watch here.
~Ron Cosser for The Craftsman
Email: thecraftsman@thecraftsman.com
I’ve never had any affiliation with Audi, Stickley & Co.
Use sparingly in a well-ventilated area
For a piece that has been ignored for years (and that you might want to show at Grove Park), a bit more liberal use of the dressing will reap dividends, as shown in our videos.
And the obvious question is: “Is this meant to be used on MY furniture?”
This works beautifully on any sealed wood surface.
So regardless of the era and the style: Modern, traditional, colonial, mid-century modern, Scandinavian, antiques, Ikea, yard sale treasures, hand-me-downs. It will work.
