Centripetal Spring Chair (Primary Title)
Thomas E. Warren, American, active 1821 - 1852 (Designer)
American Chair Company, American, active 1829–1858 (Manufacturer)
Based on French designs for “music chairs,” this centripetal spring chair demonstrates the mid-19th century’s use of historical forms to help mediate and ameliorate the impact of industrialization. Such designs were disseminated in America through illustrations in printed works like Le Garden-meuble, ancien et moderne (Furniture Repository, Ancient and Modern), a bimonthly periodical published in Paris from 1839 until 1935.
National Endowment for the Arts Fund for American Art
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