Chair

Designed by Lockwood de Forest American
 Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774

This side chair is an example of the "exotic" furniture that Lockwood de Forest designed and produced at the Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company in western India. De Forest's synthesis of straightforward plank construction and solid rectilinear form advocated by design reformers, with Indian, North African, and Near Eastern vocabularies of ornament, is characteristic of the Aesthetic movement. The chair is upholstered with a geometric-patterned and richly embroidered fabric (now worn) made at Ahmedabad and of the type that designers like Tiffany used for exotic effect in Aesthetic-style interiors. This chair may have belonged to a suite purchased by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad heiress Mary Elizabeth Garrett for her home in Baltimore.

Chair, Designed by Lockwood de Forest (American, New York 1850–1932 Santa Barbara, California), Probably teak; silk embroidery on linen, American

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Chair, Designed by Lockwood de Forest (American, New York 1850–1932 Santa Barbara, California), Probably teak; silk embroidery on linen, American
Chair, Designed by Lockwood de Forest (American, New York 1850–1932 Santa Barbara, California), Probably teak; silk embroidery on linen, American
Chair, Designed by Lockwood de Forest (American, New York 1850–1932 Santa Barbara, California), Probably teak; silk embroidery on linen, American
Chair, Designed by Lockwood de Forest (American, New York 1850–1932 Santa Barbara, California), Probably teak; silk embroidery on linen, American
Chair, Designed by Lockwood de Forest (American, New York 1850–1932 Santa Barbara, California), Probably teak; silk embroidery on linen, American

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