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Hickory Chair, founded in 1911 in Hickory, North Carolina, began with a single product: a made-to-order dining chair. It has operated out of the same facility ever since. Nearly 90 percent of its furniture is still made in the Hickory workroom. RS Gorham Silver Jabez Gorham founded his silver workshop in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1831, beginning with coin-silver spoons. His son John mechanized production, hired master European craftsmen, and by the 1860s had built Gorham into the largest silver manufacturer in the world. At its peak, Gorham employed 3,000 people. In 1895, designer William Christmas Codman introduced the Chantilly pattern, which became the most popular sterling flatware pattern ever produced; it's been in production for 130 years and remains available today under the Lenox Corporation. RS Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens Bask in three centuries of our country's furniture and decorative art at one of 62 America's great house museums. This stately John Staub-designed mansion in Houston (1927-1928) is set within 14 acres of azalea- and camellia-filled gardens. Assembled by collector and philanthropist Ima Hogg over six decades, Bayou Bend's trove of treasures spans 1620 through 1876, from the Colonial Era though the post-Civil War period and includes iconic American furniture makers Duncan Phyfe and John Henry Belter. CDA Lodge Cast Iron In the annals of how the West was won, a cast-iron skillet sizzling over the campfire played a leading role. The company synonymous with cowboy cooking is Lodge Cast Iron, established 1896 by Joseph Lodge. A hundred and 30 years later, Lodge is still family-owned with a pair of foundries in its original hamlet, South Pittsburg, Tennessee. CDA Pickard China "America's Finest China Since 1893" reads the tagline for Pickard China, which is the only company still manufacturing fine china in the United States. Wilder Pickard set up his original shop 133 years ago in Edgerton, Wisconsin. The company has operated in Antioch, Illinois, since 1930. Its dinnerware pairs delicacy with strength; all patterns bear 24K gold or pure platinum and are renowned for their lustrous glaze. The clients of this fourth-generation family-owned company are its calling cards, with commissions from the Queen of England to a Saudi King, as well as services for the White House's First Ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, Air Force One, Camp David, and both Houses of Congress. Due to their nimble size, personalized sets of china only take six to eight weeks. CDA American Silver at the Dallas Museum of Art The vaunted arc of American 19th-century silver plays out at the Dallas Museum of Art with two calling cards of the museum's decorative arts collection, both by Gorham. William C. Codman's Martelé solid-silver dressing table and stool, 1899, is a masterpiece of Art Nouveau that won a grand prize for metalcraft at the 1900 Paris World's Fair. A sterling-silver ice bowl and serving spoon from the 1870s, both adorned with polar bears, memorialize the U.S. purchase of Alaska in 1867 and were acquired by the DMA at auction from the collection of Sam Wagstaff, Robert Mapplethorpe's mentor and partner. The museum's holdings of 20th- century American silver, specifically the modernist impulse across seven decades, is the world's most significant such collection, whose riches include creations by Jean G. Theobald, Donald Colflesh, Tommi Parzinger, Eliel Saarinen, Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, Elsa Peretti, and Richard Meier. CDA Old Hickory Furniture Andrew Jackson 3-Hoop chair Leslie Lewis Sigler oil on panel of Gorham Chantilly serving spoons, Silver Pair 73, The Mule and the Nag, 2026, at Commerce Gallery, Lockhart Above: Gorham Manufacturing Company ice bowl (with spoon), collection Dallas Museum of Art. Air Force One coffee/tea set by Pickard China. KAITLIN GREEN COURTESY DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART COURTESY PICKARD CHINA Lodge Cast Iron USA Frontier skillet (Continued from page 60)