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No. 4 Rocking Chair

This is a Rocking chair. It was made by Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet. It is dated ca. 1860 and we acquired it in 1969. Its medium is bent beechwood, woven caning. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Founded in 1853, Thonet Brothers furniture, such as this rocking chair, demonstrates the capabilities of the new steam and lamination technologies in their arcing, curvilinear forms. Although delicate looking due to their slenderness, this chair’s runners offered a strong and decorative alternative to historicist cabriole legs, as they were joined with metal at connecting junctions for reinforcement.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of American Institute of Interior Designers.

Drawing, Elevation and Plan for a Staircase Model in the English Style

Drawing, Elevation and Plan for a Staircase Model in the English Style
pen and black ink, brush and pink, yellow, and grey watercolor on cream wove....
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2013-3-1

Bubbles Chaise Longue
layered and bent corrugated cardboard.
Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper-Hewitt,....
2012-3-1

This is a cantilevered chair with a curved support made of tubular steel, on which a cane seat and chair are woven tightly in between. Most prominent is the use of curved tubular steel frame. From the chair shape to the the bottom half, the steel frame transitions seamlessly from chair back, to seat, to dramatic, round, half circle shape front 'legs' into a square support on the bottom for feet, in one single piece. This curving to square design is repeated for chair's arms: a singular tube creates two, long rounded supports that seamlessly transitions into flat arms on either side of the chair and is squared off behind the chair's back. Along the chair's arms, seat, and back is a dark brown woven cane.

Model MR534 Lounge Chair
bent nickel-plated tubular steel, cane.
Gift of the David Teiger Trust.
2016-36-7

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Dark-green wooden rocking chair, with tall arched back and arms formed from slender bent wooden branches. The arm branches are attached at the sides of the carved seat. The back branches wrap over the arm branches. On the back, three vertical ribs radiating up from seat. Four cylindrical legs sit on rockers, with two stretchers between the legs on each side.

Bentwood Rocking Chair Rocking Chair
painted maple.
Gift of George J. Fino.
1968-143-1

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 97 x 56 x 80cm (38 3/16 x 22 1/16 x 31 1/2in.)

Cite this object as

No. 4 Rocking Chair; Made by Gebrüder (Brothers) Thonet (Austria); Austria; bent beechwood, woven caning; H x W x D: 97 x 56 x 80cm (38 3/16 x 22 1/16 x 31 1/2in.); Museum purchase through gift of American Institute of Interior Designers; 1969-103-2

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008 and Faster, Cheaper, Newer, More: The Revolutions of 1848.

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Accession Number 1969-103-2
Object ID 18467803