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Roly-Poly Chair (Water),

Cabinet de Curiosite,

(not entered),

This rare eighteenth century mahogany Chippendale desk and bookcase is one of about one hundred known secretaries from this period. Its fine proportions, construction, woods, and stylistic elements such as the closed pediment, applied tympanum panels, distribution of interior drawers, and bracket feet indicate a Rhode Island origin, recently confirmed to be from maker Thomas […]

Rocking Chair,

Bentwood furniture by European manufacturer Gebrüder Thonet influenced much of twentieth-century European and American furniture design and has become indelibly linked with innovation in nineteenth-century furniture production. Although first created in Austria in the 1840s and ’50s, Thonet bentwood furniture was almost immediately imported, retailed, and widely used in the United States. The rocking chair […]

Pie Safe,

This Tennessee pie safe, with its painted tins and hand-punched ventilation holes, is a premier example of this important form in the pre-ice-box American household. The multicolored painted and punched tins depict myriad symbols—including urns, stars, and candlesticks—not often found in such fine condition. The horizontal form is specific to the Eastern Tennessee/Southwestern Virginia area, […]

Card Table,

This richly grained Neoclassical mahogany card table, with its interplay of woods and geometric overlays, was made in Baltimore sometime between the American Revolution and the War of 1812. The table features extensive satinwood inlay tassels of intertwining husks, or bellflowers, and ovals in classic patterns from the Baltimore area, complemented by delicately tapered legs. […]

Hacking Infinity, Shoes,

Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen collaborated with Japanese shoe designer Noritaka Tatehana to create a work that challenges and transforms contemporary structure and methods of shoe design. The duo utilized a marriage of traditional handcraft and 3-D printing technology for this strikingly unconventional shoe form. Designed for van Herpen’s 2015 Hacking Infinity collection, the […]

Vestigios (Remains),

No. 632,

No. 901,