Chazen Museum of Art
Chair display on lower level

one chair
 

Virtual Tour  Lower Level: Open Storage Displays

The lower level is not a proper display area. However, two fifty-foot long open storage cases have been installed for furniture and other related objects that are regularly requested by students and faculty members but that have no context in the museum's galleries on the upper levels.

The chairs in the open storage case on the east side of the building are arranged north to south in chronological order beginning with an English William and Mary Chair of ca. 1690 and ending with Tom Loeser's Folding Chair of 1989. In between are examples by such notables as Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles Eames, Henry Bertoia, and Eero Saarinen.

The wall case on the west side of the building is less coherently ordered. Among the objects it contains are a finely carved French walnut Cabinet a deux corps from about 1550-75, a Queen Anne drop-leaf table of 1730-50, two gilt English side tables of about 1770-75 after designs by Robert Adam, and several small American tables of the 19th century.