Collections: Decorative Arts: Side Chair

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Side Chair

• Designer And Maker: George Jacob Hunzinger, American, born Germany, 1835-1898
• Medium: Wood and textile covered steel webbing
• Place Manufactured: New York, USA
• Dates: Patented March 30, 1869 and April 18, 1876
• Dimensions: 32 x 17 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (81.3 x 44.5 x 49.5 cm)
• Markings: Outer proper left back leg, impressed: "PAT. APRIL 18 1876/N.Y./PAT.MARCH 30/1869/HUNZINGER"
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 2005.64
• Credit Line: Gift of Ronald S. Kane
• Image: Overall, 2005.64_mark_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
George Jacob Hunzinger (American, born Germany, 1835-1898). Side Chair, Patented March 30, 1869 and April 18, 1876. Wood and textile covered steel webbing, 32 x 17 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (81.3 x 44.5 x 49.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Ronald S. Kane, 2005.64 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2005.64_mark_bw.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Dark brown stained side chair of turned parts with textile-covered steel mesh seat. Composed of rectangular back of two mirror-image J-shaped elements between two horizontal slats attached to stiles that gently curve backward at crest. Raised atop gently curving rectangular back legs that taper towards base. Diagonal side braces, attached to top of crest rail, back of side seat rails, and terminate with small sphere at join with horizontal half-stretcher that connects to midpoint of front legs. stretcher at midpoint of front legs and upper back legs. Seat is woven into open-work square pattern wrapped around brads to inside of seat rails.