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Folding Chair (USA)
This is a Folding chair. It was manufactured by Edward W. Vaill. It is dated 1863–75 and we acquired it in 2001. Its medium is carved, joined and turned wood or mahogany, woven wool upholstery, metal tacks. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
This chair is a variation on a model patented in 1863 by Edward W. Vaill, one of the most prominent American patent chair manufacturers of the period. This chair’s functional folding frame is enhanced with a fashionable upholstery featuring a scrolling vine motif, suggestive of de Forest’s woodwork, which made it equally well-suited for use in a middle-class dining room or parlor.
This object was
donated by
Marilyn Friedman.
It is credited Gift of Marilyn Friedman.
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- polyamide (nylon).
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- 2008-32-4
- Folding Chair (Denmark)
- beech, canvas, metal.
- Gift of Peter Condu.
- 1994-6-1
- Pippa Folding Stool
- pearwood, leather, brass.
- Gift of Hermès S.A..
- 1989-36-2
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- glass-reinforced nylon, aluminum.
- Lent by Duncan Fitzsimons.
- 52.2017.1
- Unfolding Chair
- bent and laminated plywood.
- 1983-59-1
Its dimensions are
H x W x D (open): 73 x 39 x 50 cm (28 3/4 x 15 3/8 x 19 11/16 in.) L x W x D (folded): 89 x 39 x 17 cm (35 1/16 x 15 3/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Paper label on underside of front seat rail: "E. W. Vaill Patantee and Manufacturer, Worcester, Mass., Patented January 6, 1863."
Cite this object as
Folding Chair (USA); Manufactured by Edward W. Vaill (American, active 1861–92); carved, joined and turned wood or mahogany, woven wool upholstery, metal tacks; H x W x D (open): 73 x 39 x 50 cm (28 3/4 x 15 3/8 x 19 11/16 in.) L x W x D (folded): 89 x 39 x 17 cm (35 1/16 x 15 3/8 x 6 11/16 in.); Gift of Marilyn Friedman; 2000-74-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Passion for the Exotic: Lockwood de Forest, Frederic Church.
