"Metamorphic Library Chair", from "Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions Etc.." Plate 29 (volume I, July 1811)
Decorative Arts and Design
Morgan & Sanders’s metamorphic library chair established the basic mechanical design for this form. Their chair was rendered in the then-fashionable Neoclassical, or Regency, style, characterized by a concave back, scrolling arms, and curved, saber-shaped legs. The form of Eliaers’s library step-chair derives directly from this English example of forty years earlier.
PUBLISHER
Rudolph Ackermann, British, 1764â1830
MEDIUM
Printed paper and watercolor
DATES
1811
DIMENSIONS
Other: 9 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (23.5 x 13 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
2011.80
CREDIT LINE
Gift of H. Blairman & Sons Ltd.
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Printed double image of: above, a Klismos style armchair with light blue cushion; below, the same chair folded over backwards to become a step ladder with four light-blue colored steps.
At top proper left corner printed in black: "Plate 3 Vol 6"
At bottom center printed in black: "METAMORPHIC LIBRARY CHAIR/ No. 31 of R. ACKERMANN'S REPOSITORY of ARTS etc. Pub. July 1 1811, at 101 Strand LONDON"
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Rudolph Ackermann (British, 1764â1830). "Metamorphic Library Chair", from "Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions Etc.." Plate 29 (volume I, July 1811), 1811. Printed paper and watercolor, Other: 9 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (23.5 x 13 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of H. Blairman & Sons Ltd., 2011.80 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2011.80_PS6.jpg)
IMAGE
group, 2011.80_PS6.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2012
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