Armchair (Primary Title)
William Lightfoot Price, American, 1861 - 1916 (Designer)
Rose Valley Shops, 1901 - 1906 (Maker)
William L. Price was a Philadelphia architect, designer, and social reformer who helped found the Rose Valley Association in the early 20th century. Intended to counter industrialization’s “deadening influences of monotonous unthinking toil,” the association’s mission was “to lift society out of accustomed thought or habit” through the establishment of an artisan community supportive of creativity and independence. Inspired by John Ruskin and the British Arts and Crafts movement, Rose Valley Studios produced a range of household materials and furnishings, including this chair designed by Price. Combining an Arts and Crafts philosophy with an Anglo- American colonial-inspired design, the chair complicates conventional interpretations of the Colonial Revival style.
Colonial Revival; Arts and Crafts
Branded "Rose Vallery Shops"
Gabe W. Burton Fund
“From Arts and Crafts to Modern Design: The Architecture of William L. Price,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2000; National Building Museum, Washington, DC, August 21,2001 – March 24, 2002 |
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