A1: Massachusetts Living Room and Kitchen, 1675–1700
Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne American, 1882–1966
c. 1940
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: 59.1 × 101.3 × 75 cm (23 1/4 × 39 7/8 × 29 1/2 in.); Internal (main room only): 22.3 × 52.1 × 36.6 cm (8 3/4 × 20 1/2 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Origin
- United States