Armchair (USA)

Kimbel & Cabus

ca. 1870–73

ash, leather, brass

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A wooden armchair with a brown leather seat and backrest is shown against a plain gray background. The chair has decorative brass tacks along the edges of the leather and carved details on the wooden frame. Upholstered seat and back with decorative brass nail heads, incised decoration on wood frame, the seat supported on diagonal front legs reinforced by a turned stretcher, slightly splayed back legs rise to seat back. Museum gift in loving memory of Robert Kaufmann, by his sister, Catherine Tatum