Side Chair
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Object Label
This side chair is an intentional, faithful copy of a chair made more than one hundred years earlier by the famous New York City cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe. Made out of the same expensive materials as the original Phyfe chair, it is an example of the Colonial Revival style that began about the time of the United States centennial in 1876 and continued well into the twentieth century. Out of a desire to define themselves and their place in the world, Americans began to look back proudly to their past. They then began to build colonial-style houses and fill them with early American–style furniture such as this chair.
Caption
Ernest F. Hagen Furniture and Antiques; Henry Hagen 1877–1927. Side Chair, ca. 1926. Mahogany, metal, modern damask upholstery, 31 1/4 x 18 x 19 1/2 in. (79.4 x 45.7 x 49.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of H. Randolph Lever, 64.80.22. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.80.22_PS2.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
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Collection
Title
Side Chair
Date
ca. 1926
Geography
Place made: New York, New York, United States
Medium
Mahogany, metal, modern damask upholstery
Classification
Dimensions
31 1/4 x 18 x 19 1/2 in. (79.4 x 45.7 x 49.5 cm)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
On back seat rail: white label gummed and printed in black "From / Ernest F. Hagen, / Furniture and Antiques / 213 East 26th St., / New York / [written in pencil] Nov. 1926"; written in pencil directly on seat rail "Mr. Lever / Nov. 1926"
Credit Line
Bequest of H. Randolph Lever
Accession Number
64.80.22
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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