E-1: English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603
Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne American, 1882-1966
c. 1937
On view — Gallery 11 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Narcissa Niblack Thorne, creator of the Thorne Rooms, combined a deep knowledge of design history with a vivid imaginative sensibility. In the 1930s, she assembled a team of skilled artisans in Chicago to construct a series of intricately detailed interiors at the scale of one inch to one foot…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Miniature room, mixed media
- Dimensions
- Scale 1 inch = 1 foot: 57.5 × 63.2 × 79.4 cm (22 11/16 × 24 7/8 × 31 1/4 in.); Interior, Scale 1 inch = 1 foot: 58.5 × 64.2 × 80.7 cm (23 × 25 1/4 × 31 3/4 in.); Internal Measurements of Main Room: 59.1 × 87.7 × 100.7 cm (23 1/4 × 34 1/2 × 39 5/8 in.)
- Origin
- United States