Table
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Caption
Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann (French, 1879–1933); Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann (French, 1879–1933). Table, ca. 1923. Kingwood veneer on mahogany and oak with ivory inlay, 22 1/8 × 15 3/8 × 30 3/4 in. (56.2 × 39.1 × 78.1 cm) mount: 25 × 31 × 15 in. (63.5 × 78.7 × 38.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by Joseph F. McCrindle, Mrs. Richard M. Palmer, Charles C. Paterson, Raymond Worgelt, and an anonymous donor, 71.150.3. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Collection
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Collection
Designer
Title
Table
Date
ca. 1923
Geography
Place made: France
Medium
Kingwood veneer on mahogany and oak with ivory inlay
Classification
Dimensions
22 1/8 × 15 3/8 × 30 3/4 in. (56.2 × 39.1 × 78.1 cm) mount: 25 × 31 × 15 in. (63.5 × 78.7 × 38.1 cm)
Signatures
Unsigned
Inscriptions
no inscriptions
Markings
no marks
Credit Line
Purchased with funds given by Joseph F. McCrindle, Mrs. Richard M. Palmer, Charles C. Paterson, Raymond Worgelt, and an anonymous donor
Accession Number
71.150.3
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This table was designed by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, a French furniture designer from the early 20th century. You can see in the organic forms and intricate inlays in his furniture an interest in handmade and carefully crafted objects, a reaction against the rapid industrialization of the time. French designers like Ruhlmann looked back to older traditions for inspiration and put themselves forward as the height of European taste.
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