Boxy leather club chair with large, simple rectangular sides and thick square cushion. Stylistically plain but sumptuous, its rich tan leather has an orange tinge, described as sienna. The bulky base of the chair rests on short, tapered woodblock feet.

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Object Timeline

1930	Work on this object began.
1960	We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
1968	We acquired this object.
2001	We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We photographed this object.
2012	We photographed this object.
2017	We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Club Chair Armchair And Cushion

This is a Armchair and cushion. It was designed by Jean-Michel Frank. We acquired it in 1968. Its medium is wood, leather. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Jean-Michel Frank became a favorite French designer among wealthy American designers and clients alike. This desk and club chair probably first were in Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe Sherfesee’s Paris apartment decorated by American Eyre de Lanux, who often worked with Frank, and subsequently used at Villa Bontoc, their ca. 1927 house in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. In 1929 Vogue featured the San Francisco penthouse created by Frank for Templeton Crocker, calling it “the first large and luxurious apartment to be done completely in the modern manner in the United States.”

This object was donated by Forsythe Sherfesee and Mrs. Forsythe Sherfesee.