American by Craft
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Exhibit |
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| Start date |
08.28.2021 10:00 AM |
Address / City: |
1900 Pattinson Ave Philadelphia |
| End date |
01.16.2022 05:00 PM |
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PA, US |
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American by Craft: The Furniture of Olof Althin
This exhibition reunites the workshop and wares of Olof Althin (1859-1920), an immigrant cabinetmaker and antiques restorer in turn-of-the-century Boston.
Throughout his life, Althin navigated the intersections between immigrant and American, reproducer and restorer, and designer and maker. Poised between these identities, Althin reveals the challenges of a cabinetmaker balancing economic enterprise with adherence to ideal-driven craft movements in the early-20th century American furniture trade.
co-curated by Erica Lome and Trevor Brandt and was generously supported in part by a Failey grant from The Decorative Arts Trust. It is on view at ASHM from July 23, 2021 through January 16, 2022. |
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