Artist Name:
Frank Furness
Nationality & Life Dates:
(American, 1839–1912)
Title:
Dining Table
Date:
ca. 1875
Medium:
Oak, chestnut, butternut, and ash
Dimensions:
26 1/4 x 66 x 66 inches
Credit Line:
Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection
Accession Number:
1983.198
On View - Stent Family Wing,Third Level, Gallery 307
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 in 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.