Salad servers
Charles Rohlfs was an idiosyncratic and inventive furniture maker, designer, and creative visionary. He produced what he described as "artistic furniture" in the "Rohlfs style." Indeed, his designs are among the most original works produced during the early twentieth century. Although he is often associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, Rohlfs resisted such characterization, and his work defies tidy classification. These muscular, oversized salad servers are notable examples of his distinctive design sensibilities, which combine Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and proto-modern styles. As an article in the August, 1900 Puritan titled "A New Art and a New Artist" reported, "The Rohlfs style is something entirely new and belongs in a class quite by itself. Try your best and you cannot place it in association with anything else."
Artwork Details
- Title: Salad servers
- Maker: Charles Rohlfs (American, Brooklyn, New York 1853–1936 Buffalo, New York)
- Date: 1902—05
- Geography: Made in Buffalo, New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Silver-plated copper, wood
- Dimensions: Spoon: 1 3/8 × 11 1/2 in. (3.5 × 29.2 cm)
Fork: 1 3/8 × 11 3/4 in. (3.5 × 29.8 cm) - Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
- Object Number: 2021.14.13a, b
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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