Armchair

A. M. E. Fournier

ca. 1860 · Gilded wood, upholstered in modern green tufted velvet · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

With its deeply tufted back and seat, this innovative and amusing armchair epitomizes the desire for originality and variety combined with a concern for comfort that was charactersitic of the Second Empire. Seat furniture carved in this manner is generally associated with the Parisian upholsterer A.M.E. Fournier, who supplied at least one rope stool, now at the Musée National du Château de Compiègne.

Artist

A. M. E. Fournier

Date

ca. 1860

Medium

Gilded wood, upholstered in modern green tufted velvet

Culture

French, probably Paris

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1998