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Corner Cabinet

This is a Corner Cabinet. It was designed by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann. It is dated ca. 1923. Its medium is kingwood (amaranth) veneer on mahogany, ivory inlay.

The strong black and white contrast of the ivory and ebony floral inlay in the central medallion may represent the influence of the Wiener Werkstätte on Ruhlmann, who designed this corner cabinet in Paris ca. 1923 as part of an interior for “Les Terrasses,” the newly built house of A. Weitz, in Lyon, France.

It is credited Lent by Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by Joseph F. McCrindle, Mrs. Richard M. Palmer, Charles C. Paterson, Raymond Worgelt, and an anonymous donor, 71.150.1.

Day Dress
floral printed cotton, trimmed with silk velvet.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Katherine Cortesi Armstrong,....
76.2016.7

Evening Coat
velvet, silk, beads, metallic embroidery.
Lent by Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Mrs. Christian R. Holmes,....
76.2016.5

Canapé Gondole
carved indian rosewood, indian rosewood-veneered wood, brass, and linen velvet.
Private Midwest collection.
32.2016.3

Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.

Sidewall (France)
machine-printed on paper.
Museum purchase from General Acquisition Endowment Fund.
2003-9-1

Here we have a secretary desk constructed from lumber-core plywood with veneers of Macassar ebony, oak, poplar and mahogany. Its legs are capped with ivory with ivory stripes running up outer sides of front supports. On the bottom of the desk is a horizontal drawer accessed by beaded tassel pulls set in ivory mounts. The desk’s contents are accessed by a key inserted into a keyhole inscribed by inset oval of inlaid ivory. Closed in the first image, there is an accompanying second image where the top half is opened. The interior and writing surface is sheathed in deep oxblood leather. There are more ivory and tasseled-pulls and to provide access to two storage drawers and cabinet on the left side. To the right are open, squared spaces. A ring of rectangular ivory inlay runs around the upper perimeter of the cabinet.

Desk, Tibattant
macassar ebony, ivory, leather, aluminum leaf, silver, silk, oak, lumber-core....
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift,....
66.2016.1

Its dimensions are

126.7 x 80.6 x 59.7 cm (49 7/8 x 31 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oahbV/
Accession Number 33.2016.1
Object ID 907130145