E1: 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
- External: 80.7 × 119.4 × 105.5 cm (31 3/4 × 47 × 41 1/2 in.); Internal (main room only): 59.1 × 87.7 × 100.7 cm (23 1/4 × 34 1/2 × 39 5/8 in.)
- Origin
- United States