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“Queen Anne” side chair
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“Queen Anne” side chair

Datedesigned 1984
Label TextThese "Queen Anne" side chairs were part of the collection of chairs, tables and a sofa designed for Knoll Inc., in 1984 by architect Robert Venturi with contributions from his wife, architect Denise Scott-Brown. Their Knoll furniture line included a variety of historical styles—Chippendale, Queen Anne, Empire, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, Biedermeier, Gothic Revival, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco, designed to break down barriers between traditional and modern design. Chairs in the "Queen Anne" style with the colorful, laminated "Grandmother's Tablecloth" pattern are in collections at the Met, MoMA, and Art Institute of Chicago, to name a few, but few collections have the chair in natural wood. These chairs are part of the museum’s small grouping of constructed objects designed by architects in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two tubular chairs by Marcel Breuer, a Frank Lloyd Wright window designed for the Coonley Playhouse in Chicago, and a window by John La Farge were joined several years ago by an Elevator Screen designed in 1893 by Louis Sullivan for the Chicago Stock Exchange.
Object number2013.30.2
ProvenanceGift from Knoll International to the Seattle Art Museum, 1990
Credit LineGift of Knoll International
Dimensions38 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. (97.8 x 67.3 x 59.7 cm)
MediumMolded laminated wood
Side Chair
ca. 1730
Object number: 91.243.1
Jean-Baptiste Sené
ca. 1795-1800
Object number: 97.44.1.3
Jean-Baptiste Sené
ca. 1795-1800
Object number: 97.44.1.4
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
John Marshall
ca. 1976
Object number: 2011.24.5
Photo: Susan Cole
Shaker
ca. 1830
Object number: 2000.47
B6 chair
1929
Object number: 98.24
Vase
Emile Gallé
late 19th century
Object number: 95.120
Deep dish
English, Chelsea
1753- 59
Object number: 76.216
Deep dish
English, Chelsea
1759-1769
Object number: 76.222
Photo: Paul Macapia
English, Chelsea
1753 - 58
Object number: 76.230