Brooklyn Museum: Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of …
Jul 2, 2021 · Over sixty objects are on view, with rare examples of furniture from their famous chair designs and dramatic, monumental desks to their quirky, smaller forms decorated with fanciful paper panels, as well as books and ephemera.
Brooklyn Museum: Period Rooms
The inventor and designer George Hunzinger secured twenty-one furniture patents between 1860 and 1898, more than any other American manufacturer, for a wide array of folding chairs, tables, chaises, and novel structural innovations.
American Painted Furniture - Brooklyn Museum
From a late seventeenth-century Massachusetts dressing table to a late nineteenth-century sideboard by Herter Brothers of New York, the exhibition presents a chronology of American painted furniture. Paint is perhaps the most common …
Brooklyn Museum - Wikipedia
The museum's furniture, sculpture, and watercolor galleries reopened in 1957 following the second stage of the renovation. [100][101] The rear annex contained a new stairway, [101] which led to new galleries on the fourth through sixth stories of the center section. [102]
Category : Furniture in the Brooklyn Museum - Wikimedia
Centripetal Spring chair by Thomas E. Warren, patented September 25, 1849, made by the American Chair Company, Troy, New York, cast iron, sheet metal, wood, original fringe- Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, NY - DSC08852.JPG 3,648 × 5,472; 4.73 MB.
Furniture from the Index of American Design - National Gallery of Art
This program illustrates the major styles of fine American furniture from about 1650 to about 1850. During this time, American furniture styles followed English fashions, though there was often a time lag between design developments in English and their appearance in America.
The Brooklyn Museum Presents Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863–82 Featuring over sixty objects, the exhibition is the first to examine the enterprising New York City design team who pioneered a new take on Modern Gothic furniture and defined a significant aesthetic in the post–Civil War United States.
The Brooklyn Museum presents 'Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture …
Jul 9, 2021 · Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863–82 is the first museum exhibition to trace their timeless American success story, presenting new scholarship and fresh insight into the history of the enterprising design team.
Nineteenth-Century American Furniture and Other Decorative
Aug 1, 2014 · Collection of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Based on the mid-eighteenth-century French Rococo style popular during the reign of Louis XV. Outlines are curved, forms are rounded and the ornament derives from nature, including shells, flowers, leaves and fruits.
Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus
A new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum explores the copper gilded work of immigrant cabinetmakers Anton Kimbel and Joseph Cabus who defined Modern Gothic design for the post–Civil War United States.