Mark Hopkins House Side Chair (Herter Brothers)발음듣기
Mark Hopkins House Side Chair (Herter Brothers)
We're looking at a chair that's 135 years old, but looks really good for its age considering some of the furniture in my house, anyway.발음듣기
It was manufactured here in the United States by a very well known furniture manufacturer and designer, the Herter Brothers.발음듣기
They produce some of the most sophisticated and technically refined furniture of this late 19th century period.발음듣기
Architects, designers, painters, looking back at history, adopting various styles, from Egyptian to Classical to Islamic, Gothic, looking for a way of expressing a modern style.발음듣기
[Voiceover] This chair would have been recognized as modern because it's one of the first examples of Americans interpreting a Japanese aesthetic here in the United States.발음듣기
[Voiceover] We're seeing those elements of Japanese, or Eastern stuff, maybe even Chinese too, in the rectilinear forms along the back of the chair.발음듣기
[Voiceover] The floral decoration, the marquetry, the inlay, the ba-ribboning that festoons the chair rail.발음듣기
[Voiceover] It's hard for us to imagine how chic and fashionable all things Japanese were and so here he is bringing that Japonisme, that interest in Japan, which started in the late 1850's after Japan opened up to trade to America.발음듣기
Christian Herter studied in Paris and it was there that he became familiar with this Japanese style.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Christian also goes to England and becomes acquainted with the art furniture of E.W. Godwin.발음듣기
It's not just furniture anymore. There's this self-awareness of making really beautiful furniture.발음듣기
[Voiceover] So when you say flat, I think it might be worthwhile to think about an overstuffed Victorian couch with lots of curvilinear forms, elaborate carving.발음듣기
The decoration on the back of the crest rail is inlayed so that the overall surface effect of the chair gives that flat quality.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Christian Herter was trained as a painter and I think we can see his approach to the chair as a painter decorating on the surface.발음듣기
The lighting source in the room would have picked up on that gilt decoration making it really come alive.발음듣기
It looks very simple, but when you look closely you see all the design decisions that Herter is making here.발음듣기
This Anglo-Japanese style is part of a reform of design that happened in the late 19th century.발음듣기
There was a feeling in England and America too that design in those countries was faltering.발음듣기
That because of the Industrial Revolution people weren't paying attention to how things were designed and so we begin to see in the late 19th century this real care being taken in how things looked.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Often times, people think of 19th century furniture and link it to mass production and the use of the factory.발음듣기
But with this Herter Brothers chair, we can see that late 19th century furniture can also represent fine craftsmanship and attention to those details.발음듣기
[Voiceover] The details, such as the gilt decoration and the marquetry would have been added by the client and as such, added to the cost.발음듣기
This chair was commissioned by a very wealthy client named Mark Hopkins who was one of the founders of the Union Pacific Railroad and he lived in the wealthiest neighborhood of San Francisco called Nob Hill.발음듣기
This chair likely appeared in the reception room that was fitted out in this Anglo-Japanese style.발음듣기
The house also included a medieval hall, a picture gallery, a number of these other historasis interiors.발음듣기
So Mark Hopkins would've aimed that this Anglo-Japanese style would've impressed his visitors.발음듣기
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