
Chair
Herter Brothers
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Herter Brothers, established by Gustave Herter and his brother Christian, became New York City’s preeminent cabinetmakers from the 1860s through the 1880s. The firm provided fashionable furnishings and interior decorations for affluent clients throughout the country, including William H. Vanderbilt, Mark Hopkins, and J. Pierpont Morgan. This chair may have been made for the mansion of shipping and railway tycoon LeGrand Lockwood: Elm Park, in Norwalk, Connecticut. The marquetry plaque in the carved crest, depicting horns and pipes, alludes to the chair’s intended use in the music room.
The American Wing
An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art
The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.