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Side Chair

George Jakob Hunzinger; George Jakob Hunzinger

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Object Label

The inventor and designer George Hunzinger secured twenty-one furniture patents between 1860 and 1898, more than any other American manufacturer, for a wide array of folding chairs, tables, chaises, and novel structural innovations. He was both a prescient genius of abstract, spare design and a man of his times: the Japanese tatami matting on one of these chairs illustrates the contemporary taste for exoticism, while the Neoclassically inspired, symmetrical back splats on the other acknowledge the taste for historicism.

Caption

George Jakob Hunzinger (American, born Germany, 1835–1898); George Jakob 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)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Side Chair

Date

Patented March 30, 1869 and April 18, 1876

Geography

Place manufactured: New York, United States

Medium

Wood and textile covered steel webbing

Classification

Furniture

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"

Credit Line

Gift of Ronald S. Kane

Accession Number

2005.64

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Artists and makers

George Jakob Hunzinger

30 works in the collection

George Jakob Hunzinger

30 works in the collection