The Brooklyn Museum presents 'Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82'
Installation view.
BROOKLYN, NY
.- Over the course of their remarkable nearly-twenty-year partnership, immigrant cabinetmakers Anton Kimbel (18221895) and Joseph Cabus (18241898) transformed their business into a leading New York City furniture and decorating firm, and defined a new take on Modern Gothic design for the postCivil War United States. Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 186382 is the first museum exhibition to trace their timeless American success story, presenting new scholarship and fresh insight into the history of the enterprising design team. Over sixty objects are on view, including forty pieces of furniture as well as digitized period photographs, books, a painting, and ephemera that illustrate Kimbel and Cabuss inventive design in a variety of contexts. The exhibition is on view from July 2, 2021, to February 13, 2022, and is curated by guest curator Barbara Veith in consultation with Medill H. Harvey, Ruth Bigelow Wriston Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and Manager of the Henry R. Luce Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Shea Spiller, Curatorial Assistant, Arts of the Americas and Europe, Brooklyn Museum.