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Chiavari Chairs given to Pope Leo XIII by the Italian City of Chiavari when the city became a diocese in 1892 The chair is designed with each component made for the specific stresses it will carry. Descalzi designed a slot system for the construction and a system to tie the strips of the purple willow which form the seat of the chair directly ...
Dragonfly Lamp, c. 1900 Brooklyn Museum A Tiffany Studios Daffodil leaded glass table lamp (shade shown), designed by Clara Driscoll. While doing research for a book on Tiffany at the Queens Historical Society, Gray found the historically valuable letters written by Driscoll to her mother and sisters during the time she was employed at Tiffany.
Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass.
Parow, Germany, a village in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; Parow, Cape Town, a northern suburb of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa For Captain Johann Heinrich ...
During a great storm in Table Bay in 1865, 19 ships were stranded. Amongst the many schooners was the Kehrwieder, the ship of Captain Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Parow.After being stranded, Captain Parow settled down in the Cape of Good Hope and married Johanna Wilhelmina Timmerman, the daughter of the family that helped Captain Parow after being stranded on the Cape coast.
The first Art Nouveau houses appeared in Brussels in 1893, including the Hotel Tassel designed by Victor Horta.Horta designed not only the house and decor but also the furniture, which featured the same nature-inspired curling whiplash lines which were featured in the architecture, wrought iron balcony and stairway railings, ceramic floors, and door handles.
Stern has a bachelor's degree in English from Merton College, Oxford.She gained her MPhil in 1993 and PhD in 1997, both from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.She was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford (1997-2000); a Reader at Oxford Brookes University (2001-5), and then Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor at University College, Oxford, and Professor of Shakespeare and Early ...
Federal furniture refers to American furniture produced in the federal style period, which lasted from approximately 1789 to 1823 and is itself named after the Federalist Era in American politics (ca. 1788-1800). [1] Notable furniture makers who worked in the federal style included John and Thomas Seymour, Duncan Phyfe and Charles-Honoré Lannuier.