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Art Institute Chicago
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Large ebony cabinet with white designs, ivory figures, clock.

Cabinet, About 1640

Adam Eck

A work made of pine and mahogany, painted and gilded; iron straps; and metal mounts.

Sideboard and Wine Cabinet, 1859

William Burges

A work made of stained oak with modern horsehair upholstery.

Armchair, 1897

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

A colorful geometric shelf with two red drawers and various red, green, pink, blue, yellow, and black panels arranged vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, forming a tiered, anthropomorphic form.

Carlton Room Divider, 1981

Ettore Sottsass

A work made of screen-printed wood and metal.

"Architettura" Cabinet, 1955/65

Piero Fornasetti

A work made of wood with palisander and maple veneers, nickel silver.

Chest for Photographs, c. 1902

Josef Hoffmann

Tall standing clock with gilt brass panels, checkered wood inlaid trim.

Tall-Case Clock, c. 1906

Josef Hoffmann

A work made of walnut veneered with various woods and gilt-bronze mounts.

Secretary Cabinet, c. 1775

David Roentgen

A work made of steel and maple, with original upholstery (later laminated surface).

Armchair, 1937–39

Frank Lloyd Wright

Wooden fold-out desk with many drawers, two gryphons perched at bottom.

Fall-Front Desk, c. 1810

A work made of painted plywood.

Screen, c. 1952

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of walnut, ebony, boxwood, thuya, maple, and other woods, gilding, and lacquered brass mounts.

Drawing Room Cabinet, 1871/72

Bruce James Talbert

A work made of maple and bird's-eye maple.

Desk, c. 1890

R. J. Horner and Company

A work made of marquetry with maple, amaranth, mahogany, and walnut on spruce and oak.

Slant-Front Desk, c. 1720

Heinrich Ludwig Rohde

A work made of mahogany with rosewood veneer, giltwood, brass and ebony inlay, ormolu.

Card Table, c. 1815

Charles-Honoré Lannuier

A work made of bronze, glass.

Cobra Lamp, c. 1925

Edgar Brandt

A work made of mahogany with chestnut and white pine.

High Chest of Drawers, 1755–85

John Goddard

A work made of four-panel screen; aluminum flake pigment in polyvinyl acetate medium, yellow alkyd varnish, on paper.

Dragon Knows Dragon (Ryu wa ryu wo shiru), 1969

Shiryu Morita

A work made of oak, mahogany, marble, and gilt-bronze mounts.

Corner Cabinet, c. 1785

Jean Henri Riesener

A work made of carved teakwood, ash or oak.

Server, c. 1880–90

Lockwood de Forest