Design for furniture
The chair and couch depicted in this drawing are in the style of seventeenth-century English seating furniture that colonists imported to the Americas in matching sets. Placed in the reception hall of a Gilded Age private home or gentleman's social club, these imposing pieces of furniture would have conveyed a sense of Old World gravitas. In 1898, Tiffany Studios, then called Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, acquired Schmitt Brothers Furniture Company. Contemporary newspaper accounts reveal that Schmitt Brothers not only produced new pieces of furniture, but also collected antique examples, which probably served as elements in interior design schemes and as points of inspiration for new designs.
Artwork Details
- Title: Design for furniture
- Artist: Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York)
- Maker: Possibly Tiffany Glass Company (1885–92)
- Maker: Possibly Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company (American, 1892–1902)
- Maker: Possibly Tiffany Studios (1902–32)
- Date: ca. 1892–1920
- Geography: Made in New York, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, and graphite on tracing paper
- Dimensions: 9 1/16 × 17 9/16 in. (23 × 44.6 cm)
Storage (mat size): 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm) - Credit Line: Purchase, Walter Hoving and Julia T. Weld Gifts and Dodge Fund, 1967
- Object Number: 67.654.339
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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