Minneapolis Institute of Art

Hepplewhite side chair, one of a pair

Stephen Badlam

Date

c. 1795

Medium

Mahogany, ash

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Stephen Badlam was a leading American furniture maker during the Federal period. He set up his shop in Dorchester Lower Mills, Massachusetts, and was one of a number of furniture makers to mark his furniture with a stamp. Badlam and many of his peers drew inspiration from British design source books such as George Hepplewhite's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788). This chair is one of a pair; the other is currently on view nearby in the MacFarlane Room. United States, Americas

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