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Lockwood de Forest

c. 1880–90

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Medium

Carved teakwood, ash or oak

Dimensions

119.4 × 48.3 × 99.7 cm (47 × 19 × 39 1/4 in.)

Classification

furniture

Department

Arts of the Americas

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

181453

About the Artist

Lockwood de Forest · 18501932

American painter, interior designer and furniture designer. A key figure in the Aesthetic Movement, he introduced the East Indian craft revival to Gilded Age America. His father was Henry Grant de Forest, and his son worked professionally as Lockwood de Forest, Jr., though the son's birth name is Lockwood de Forest, III.

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