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The Claridge Collection. “The Claridge Collection, an assemblage of eighteenth-century Georgian inspired furniture, has been careful researched and interpreted by Raymond K. Sobota for Century Furniture Company.”—first page. Printed 6/89.

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.

Century. The Sobota Collection. [Includes a flyer. P. 1, has brief bio. Info.] Printed 10/87. [Ming Chinese adapted style]

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.

Chambery. Century Furniture. “Chambery was designed by Raymond K. Sobota and features design elements that reference 18th and 19th century provincial France.” Printed 8/92.

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.

Century. Chin Hua. Edition IX. “… conceived by eminent furniture designer Raymond K. Sobota …” Printed 5/88.

 File — Box: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.

[serial] Colonial Homes, March/April, 1986. Reprint of Manorial replicas. [Century Furniture Co. adaptations]

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.

[serial] House Beautiful, January 1993, v. 135, no. 1.

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.

Hekman Furniture, n.d. / G.R. Bookcase Chair, 1948 / Mt. Airy Chair, 1955, 1963

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.

Century Showplace. Winter Magazine 1994 [serial] Includes “Decades of Style, Ray Sobota”, p. 4

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.

Copy of above article.

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.

[photocopy] A New take on Oriental / by Barbara Garet. Design Lines [column]. Wood Wood Products May 1993. [serial] 2 copies

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Trade literature in the collection documents Sobota's reference library as well as his own furniture design. Those incorporating other designers include the Berkey & Gay Style Book, which may include works of his uncle Karl Schmidt, Widdicomb designs by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Renzo R. Rutili designs for Johnson Furniture Co. and Finn Juhl's designs for Baker. Sobota is known to have worked for the Grand Rapids Bookcase & Chair Co. and Hekman Furniture, though it is unknown if the...
Dates: n.d.