ON THE BLOCK

Joining the current auction craze is Barbra Streisand, who paid a record $363,000 Saturday for an oak and wrought iron sideboard made by craftsman Gustav Stickley. Streisand’s telephone bid on the 1903 sideboard set a record for a Stickley piece and for a single piece of American Arts and Crafts movement furniture, said Christie’s spokeswoman Dana Micucci. Micucci added that the Stickley was the top lot in the New York auction, which brought in more than $1.9 million. Before the auction, its value was estimated at $90,000. The sideboard had been in Stickley’s home in Syracuse, N.Y., before the designer’s grandson, Peter Wiles Sr., put it up for auction along with several other pieces from the house. Streisand bought three other Stickley items and two Frank Lloyd Wright drawings at the auction, said Micucci. Stickley, who died in 1942, is regarded as one of the leaders in the field of American Arts and Crafts furniture.