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Bloemenwerf

Designer Henry van de Velde Belgian
ca. 1898
Not on view
The design of this chair goes back to van de Velde’s groundbreaking demonstration of his “new style,” which he presented to the public at Bloemenwerf, the home he designed and built for himself in 1895 in the Brussels suburb of Uccles. He also designed the interiors and the furnishings, which were inspired, in part, by William Morris’s Red House. Van de Velde gave everything in the house, from the door furnishings to the wallpaper, the same patterns of embellishments and flowing linear shapes, demonstrating the idea of Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of art”) in the creation of a living space.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bloemenwerf
  • Designer: Henry van de Velde (Belgian, Antwerp 1863–1957 Zurich)
  • Manufacturer: Societe Van de Velde & Company, Belgium
  • Date: ca. 1898
  • Medium: Elm, leather, brass
  • Dimensions: 35 5/8 × 18 × 19 5/8 in. (90.5 × 45.7 × 49.8 cm)
  • Classification: Furniture
  • Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2011
  • Object Number: 2011.234
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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