"Metamorphic Library Chair", from "Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions Etc.." Plate 29 (volume I, July 1811)
1811
Rudolph Ackermann
British, 1764-1830
Decorative Arts
Morgan & Sanders’s metamorphic library chair established the basic mechanical design for this form. Their chair was rendered in the then-fashionable Neoclassical, or Regency, style, characterized by a concave back, scrolling arms, and curved, saber-shaped legs. The form of Eliaers’s library step-chair derives directly from this English example of forty years earlier.
- Maker/Artist
- Ackermann, Rudolph
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- Printed paper and watercolor
- Medium
- printed, paper, watercolor
- Locations
- Place published: London, England
- Dimensions
- Other: 9 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (23.5 x 13 cm)
- Departments
- Decorative Arts
- Accession Number
- 2011.80
- Credit Line
- Gift of H. Blairman & Sons Ltd.
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
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