Side Chair

Attributedattributed to Herter Brothers (American, 1863 - 1905)

Designerafter a designed by Henry William Batley (British, 1846 - 1932)

Collections

ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS

Dateca. 1878-1880

Mediumrosewood

Dimensions34 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (87.6 x 39.4 x 45.1 cm.)

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Purchased with funds from the Art Collectors' Council

Label TextThe British Arts and Crafts style found its way to America through the importation of British products and the adaptation of British designs. This chair is based on a design by Henry William Batley, an English designer working for Collinson and Lock, a London firm established in 1870 to manufacture and market "art furniture" on a commercial scale. This particular chair, with its slender spindles and delicate embellishments, reflects the influence of both the Anglo-Japanesque style made popular by the British Arts and Crafts designer E.W. Godwin in the 1870s and the popular line of lightweight "Sussex" chairs made by Morris & Company a decade earlier. Collinson and Lock exhibited a chair similar to the one seen here at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, and the design was popularized in America by Herter Brothers, a major American furniture manufacturer.

Status

On view

Object number2002.15