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Lockwood de Forest
c. 1880–90
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 · 1850–1932
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.