Limbert's Arts & Crafts TM

4352 Doncaster Ave.  Holt, Michigan  48842   (517) 579-8952

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Beginnings: The Old Charles P. Limbert Co., and the New Charles P. Limbert Co.

Because if it’s success in making Charles P. Limbert Furniture reproductions, and mission lamps of its own design a Battle Creek, Michigan company named Ragsdale Home Furnishings re-incorporated The Charles P. Limbert Company.

Here's how it happened. As far back as the mid-nineteen seventies, Grand Rapids Furniture was attracting attention because of the attractiveness of it's original designs, among them was a pioneer in the Arts & Crafts Movement Charles P. Limbert.  His designs were becoming more and more popular among the trendy Arts and Crafts community in Oak Park Illinois.  In 1978 Phil Myer was a transplanted Michigander working in the woodshop of Zenith Radio  in Oak Park Illinois there became attracted to the simple clean lines of the architecturally influenced furniture.  In 1978 the Zenith Radio woodshop was mostly abandoned, as the nearly 1 city block long had lost its business to the new plastic molding techniques that had became popular in the 1940's.  The few woodworkers that were left in the shop had taken to building lamps for friends in there spare time, and on lunch breaks.  In his daily commute back and forth to work he would get off the train at Harlem avenue, board the Austin Avenue bus, to pass right through the heart of what is now known as the Frank Lloyd Wright Historical district. I remember seeing the lamp in the front windows of some of the homes on Narragansett Avenue, one of which was very near Zenith.  In  1999 after a 20 year career in electronics manufacturing Phil moved back to his home in Michigan to peruse his dream of producing new arts and crafts furniture.  The architecturally significant hotels, apartment buildings and stores, became the inspiration to begin reproducing Limbert Furniture, and creating his own Arts and Crafts Designs. 

His original company was a proprietorship called Ragsdale Home Furnishings which operated out of a WWI military train storage depot in Battle Creek MI.  The old truss roofed building had no heat, which made the winters rough, so in 2004 plans were made to move to a heated location in Holt Michigan.  It was during this time that My Myer re-incorporated the Charles P. Limbert Company in its original state of Michigan.  The original buildings of the Limbert co were gone, and the company name had fallen into obscurity. 

As well as offering a line of reproduction Limbert designs, this website and the NEW Limbert Company, is here to pay respect to the original Charles P. Limbert Company.  It is our sincere mission to faithfully reproduce those exceptional Limbert designs in a manner of hand made craftsmanship that is worthy of the originals.