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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.
Label for the Gragg elastic chair and the Thonet rocker:
Samuel Gragg, along with his Belgian contemporary Jean-Joseph Chapuis
(1765–1864), obtained a patent for laminated bentwood furniture in 1808, presenting new possibilities for curvilinear style during a period when neoclassicism prevailed. One of four known Gragg armchairs, this example’s extra scroll for the arm anticipates the scrolls of Thonet’s rocker. The Thonet brothers’
numerous designs for chairs and benches proliferated in cafés and domestic
interiors throughout Europe and the United States.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of American Institute of Interior Designers.
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- Bubbles Chaise Longue
- layered and bent corrugated cardboard.
- Museum purchase from the Members' Acquisitions Fund of Cooper-Hewitt,....
- 2012-3-1
- Model MR534 Lounge Chair
- bent nickel-plated tubular steel, cane.
- Gift of the David Teiger Trust.
- 2016-36-7
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- 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.
