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  • Textile (Thailand), ca. 1960

    Long hadwoven breath, warm burnt-orange, with thick yellow weft and fine magenta warp, giving changeable effect when crumpled. At one end, an inch-wide band in which fine blue weft replaces…

  • Panel (Thailand), mid-20th century

    Long brilliant cerise panel, handwoven. Fine magenta warp of light weight wild silk and thick, flossy weft of bright orange. silk is from worm of East Thailand which feeds on…

  • Sarong (Thailand), 19th century

    Design showing center area broken up on an all-over diamond-shaped pattern containing stylized floral shapes of seated Buddha. Reclining figures in outlines of damond shapes. Two wide borders, interrupted by…

  • DCW Side Chair, 1946

    Form constructed of five shaped pieces of laminated and bent wood: contoured trapezoidal seat and back; front legs made from single narrow strip, horse-shoe shaped and tapered; shorter back legs…

  • Textile (Thailand), ca. 1963

    Brilliant pink material, double cloth, warp printed in large scale pattern derived from an Indian shawl design, in strong greens, red, and purple. The reverse is a strong magenta, with…

  • Panel (Thailand), 1960–69

    Panel of heavy handwoven silk horizontally striped in red, purple, orange, and orange-brown.

  • Side Chair (possibly Germany), late 17th–early 18th century

    This chair consists of a slab seat and an elaborately carved back in baroque style. Four tapered legs protrude from the bottom of the seat. The chair’s seat is rounded…

  • Side Chair, late 17th–early 18th century

    This chair consists of two pieces of hard wood (seat and back) jointed at the back of the seat. The back tapers slightly and is characterized by leaf-like carvings. A…

  • Side Chair (France), ca. 1935

    Vertically applied natural split straw work

  • Side Chair (France), ca. 1935

    Square wood frame covered with mottled beige and tan shagreen; solid, slightly curved square back tapering slightly toward rear; square seat upholstered in woven tan fabric.

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