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Charles Rohlfs
Side Chair1901

Not on view
Wooden chair with dramatically tall twin back posts topped by mushroom-shaped finials, four horizontal back slats, a square recessed-panel seat, and scalloped apron, in deep walnut brown

Charles Rohlfs, Charles Rohlfs Workshop, Side Chair, 1901, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Designed by
Charles Rohlfs
United States, 1853-1936
Made by
Charles Rohlfs Workshop
United States, New York, Buffalo, 1898-1928
Title
Side Chair
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1901
Medium
Oak
Dimensions
47 x 20 x 22 5/8 in. (119.38 x 50.8 x 57.47 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Max Palevsky and Jodie Evans
Accession Number
M.91.375.48
Classification
Furnishings
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Bowman, Leslie Greene. American Arts and Crafts: Virtue in Design. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.
  • Kaplan, Wendy; contributions by Crawford, Alan; Joppien, Rüdiger; Kinchin, Juliet; Ogata, Amy F.; Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet; Witt-Dörring, Christian. The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2004.

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