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Herter Brothers

Side Chair
Now On View

Maker

Herter Brothers (American, 1864-1906)

Title

Side Chair

Year

1877-1879

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ebonized cherry, light wood inlay, silk

Dimensions

96.5 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm (38 x 18 x 18 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

1990.057

Type

Exhibition History

18th and 19th-Century American Galleries
Jun 19, 2015
Charles Pendleton House
Jan 02, 2015
Making It In America
Oct 11, 2013 – Feb 09, 2014

Label copy

Eastern aesthetics and Western form are united in this chair, with ebonized cherry resembling Japanese lacquer and a stylized floral design of intricate inlays, distinctive of Herter Brothers’ furniture. Founded by German immigrants Gustav and Christian Herter, Herter Brothers was associated with the incorporation of Japanese decorative arts in American design in the 1880s. The firm quickly made a name for itself, garnering impressive commissions such as designing William Henry Vanderbilt's Fifth Avenue mansion, decorating the White House Red Room for Ulysses S. Grant, and renovating the White House East Room for Theodore Roosevelt.

Dress, Art, and Society
1750-1890
Sep 13, 1996 – Jan 05, 1997
Romanticism and Revival
Nineteenth-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
Dec 04, 1992 – Jun 26, 1993

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Herter Brothers (American, 1864-1906)
Side Chair, 1877-1879
Ebonized cherry with light wood inlay
96.5 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm (38 x 18 x 18 inches)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 1990.057

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