Pair of armchairs

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Part of a set of seat furniture previously at Lavington Park, Sussex, the chair is related to a design for a so-called "French chair" in the third edition of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director (1762). Chippendale suggested to create an open space between the cartouche-shaped back and the seat in order to lighten the overall effect of this drawing-room chair.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art