Art Institute of Chicago
A36: California Living Room, 1850-1875
Designed by Narcissa Niblack ThorneLinkedCulture matchlcp-1cb517aa62e8
- Date
- c. 1940
- Medium
- Miniature room, mixed media
- Culture
- United States
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 45415
This miniature living room is based on the Casa Soberanes, an adobe house built in 1842. Part of the Monterey Historic State Park in California, it was opened to the public as a historic home in the early twentieth century. Narcissa Thorne was an avid visitor to such historic houses, and she sought to evoke the same history and nostalgia in her designs. The furniture here recalls the weighty mahogany items families transported across the country as they moved out West in the mid-19th century.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne
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- Object type
- AAT300427608
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