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.)

DescriptionA chair with slender spindles and delicate embellishments in Anglo-Japanesque style.

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

Status

On view

Label TextThis delicate chair, possibly from the workshops of American furniture designers Herter Brothers, reveals the translatlantic nature of Arts & Crafts style. It is based on a design by Henry William Batley of Collinson and Lock, a London firm established in 1870 to manufacture and market "art furniture" on a commercial sale. With its slender spindles and delicate embellishments, it reflects the influence of both the Anglo-Japanesque style made popular by the British Aesthetic designer E.W. Godwin in the 1870s, an example of which is on view nearby (#2005.20), and the popular line of lightwight "Sussex" chairs made by Morris & Company a decade earlier, seen to the left (#2003.14).

Object number2002.15