Details

Title

Dining Table

Artist/Maker

Frank Furness (American, 1839-1912), designer
Attributed to Daniel Pabst (American, 1826-1910), maker

Date

ca. 1875

Medium

Oak, chestnut, butternut, and ash

Dimensions

26 1/4 x 66 x 66 inches

Credit

Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection

Accession #

1983.198

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 3, Gallery 303

This dining table combines the carving skill of Daniel Pabst’s workshop with the idiosyncratic designs of architect Frank Furness. Influenced by British design reformers and educators Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser, Furness used extensive decoration and pattern in his designs for buildings and furniture. Carved animals and hunting motifs were popular in dining rooms of the 1850s; here, Pabst and Furness used a related image: a heron eating a frog. This dining table was part of the original furnishings of the residence of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., at 6 West 57th Street in Manhattan.

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