Side chair

Eugène Gaillard

1900 · Walnut, leather, brass nails · Modern and Contemporary Art

This chair was designed as part of the furnishings of a model dining room in the pavilion "L'Art Nouveau Bing," at the great Exposition Universelle Internationale of 1900 in Paris. It was Gaillard's first major opportunity to display his designs and the exhibition established him virtually overnight as a foremost disciple of the modern movement. The chair, with its fluid lines and the embossed tracery of whiplash curves on the amber leather back epitomizes the Art Nouveau style.

Artist

Eugène Gaillard

Date

1900

Medium

Walnut, leather, brass nails

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

The Cynthia Hazen Polsky Fund, 1991