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Brooklyn Museum Beaux-Arts building (1895) with modern entrance (2004). Brooklyn, NY. | Brooklyn Museum Beaux-Arts building (1895) plus modern entrance. Brooklyn, NY. Architect: McKim, Mead & White. | Chest of drawers in oak & pine (c1690) from Massachusetts at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Chest in oak & pine (c1690) from Connecticut at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Chest in oak & pine (c1700-20) from New England at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Center table painted with American scenes (1840-45) attrib. Noyes & Hutton of Troy, NY at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Sideboard with marquetry (c1872) by Herter Brothers of New York below Botanical paintings (1882) by Elizabeth Boott Duveneck at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Colonial revival dropfront desk (1880s) by R.H. Horner & Co. of New York at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Fireplace mantel from John Sloane Mansion (c1882) by Herter Brothers of New York at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Mantel clock from John Sloane Mansion (c1882) from France at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Rosewood bed (1856) by John Henry Belter at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Art Nouveau armoire (c1904) by Jacques Gruber of France at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Walnut desk inlaid with copper & pewter (c1904) by Gustav Stickley at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Oak dropfront desk (1902) by Gustav Stickley at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Art Deco decorative arts at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Art Deco figurine of woman with torches at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Cow horn table (c1885) at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Wainscot oak chair (1650-1700) from Massachusetts at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | American oak armchair (1650-1700) at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | New England maple armchair with rush seat (1725-50) at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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American walnut & cane side chair (c1700) at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | American side chair (1700-10) with modern leather at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Mahogany side chair (c1760) a Chippendale copy made in Philadelphia at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | American painted poplar side chair (1825-35) at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Side chair (1904) by Frank Lloyd Wright at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Side chair (c1907) from Robert Blacker House of Pasadena, CA by Charles Sumner & Henry Mather Greene at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Chromium-plated tubular chairs (1926-8) by Marcel Breuer at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Armchair (c1928) by KEM (Karl Emanuel Martin) Weber made by Grand Rapids Chair Co., MI at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Glass armchair (c1939) attrib. Louis Dierra made by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., PA at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Collection of modern chairs at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Collection of modern bent-wood chairs at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Recreation of Dutch colonial room with dining table of Jan Martense Schenck House at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Recreation of Dutch colonial kitchen (17thC) in Jan Martense Schenck House at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Slant-front desk made locally (1720-40) in Jan Martense Schenck House at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Linen press in Jan Martense Schenck House at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Ebony & rosewood Kas or wardrobe (1625-75) probably made in Netherlands at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Mahogany veneer dressing table (c1825) from New York in Jan Martense Schenck House at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Upstairs bedroom from Reuben Bliss House (c1755) of Springfield, MA with Massachusetts-made box (1660-80) & chest (1697) & bed rugg (1790) at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Parlor from Dr. Ezekiel Porter House (c1755) with original Queen Anne-style three-sided chair (c1755) of Wethersfield, CT & tall clock (1780-1820) by Aaron Willard at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | First-floor bedchamber from Dr. Ezekiel Porter House (c1755) of Wethersfield, CT with CT furniture chest (c1715) & high chest (c1755) at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Room removed from early-American house now on display at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Hall from Henry Trippe House (c1730) of Secretary, MD at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Civil War dressing room with fireplace (1865-9) from the White House at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Civil War dressing room with dressing table (1872) by Thomas Brooks of Fulton St., Brooklyn at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |
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Moorish Room (c1878) from Worsham Mansion of New York City at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Moorish Room fireplace (c1878) from Worsham Mansion of New York City at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Art Moderne Weil-Worgelt Study (1928-30) at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. | Art Moderne Weil-Worgelt Study (1928-30) at Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, NY. |