Modern Seat Furniture: Eighty Original Designs for All Kinds of Modern American Seating Furniture, in the Latest and Most Approved Styles, Showing the Wood Structure

Author Written and illustrated by R. Cornelsen American
Publisher Bruno Hessling German
ca. 1890
Not on view

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  • Title: Modern Seat Furniture: Eighty Original Designs for All Kinds of Modern American Seating Furniture, in the Latest and Most Approved Styles, Showing the Wood Structure
  • Author: Written and illustrated by R. Cornelsen (American, active ca. 1880–1900)
  • Publisher: Bruno Hessling New York
  • Date: ca. 1890
  • Medium: Trade catalogue
  • Dimensions: 12-3/4 x 9-5/8 in. (32.4 x 24.4 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Jefferson R. Burdick Bequest, 1999
  • Object Number: 1999.34
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Written and illustrated by R. Cornelsen - Modern Seat Furniture: Eighty Original Designs for All Kinds of Modern American Seating Furniture, in the Latest and Most Approved Styles, Showing the Wood Structure - The Metropolitan Museum of Art