Sideboard
Designed 1867, made c. 1876
Medium
Ebonized mahogany with glass and silvered brass
Dimensions
181.6 × 255.3 × 50.2 cm (71 1/2 × 100 1/2 × 19 3/4 in.) (with leaves e×tended)
Classification
sideboard (furniture)
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
186047
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Celebrated as the “poet of architects and architect of all the arts,” Edward William Godwin was a man of many accomplishments. In a career that spanned more than thirty-five years, he was an architect of civic, domestic, and ecclesiastical buildings; an innovative interior decorator and designer of furniture, textiles, and theater sets; and an articulate critic of art and architecture. Godwin first designed his ebonized sideboard, of which this is a variant model, for his own dining room in 1867...