His designs were mainly inspired by such diverse influences as English Arts and Crafts, Dutch folk furniture, Scottish architect/designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and the Vienna Secession.
After leaving Akron, Limbert moved to Chicago (where he worked as a salesman at Colbys Furniture Store), then to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he set up his permanent business location at the newly built Blodgett building in 1889.
[2] Limbert originally started producing furniture in Grand Rapids at a variety of unknown locations, before finally securing their factory at the south west corner of Butterworth and Front, which was previously owned by the Clipper Bicycle Co. After 1906, they made furniture in their own brand new and customized factory in Holland Michigan, built at the south east corner of Sixth and Columbia.
[2] Charles P. Limbert lived with his sister Clara T. in an antique Victorian mansion with arts and crafts style improvements, in Grand Rapids at Fisk Lake.
[2] At the end of 1922, the Charles P. Limbert Furniture Co. changed into new ownership and management, although technically remaining in control of people who were already established there.
Van Raalte (the grandson of the founder of Holland) stepped up within several important roles in the company, from superintendent manager, eventually to the president and leader for the next two decades.
Several wash stands remain in the Old House section of the Inn, and a number of pieces of Old Hickory furniture, a line represented by Limbert, are still in use.