Serving Table

1907–9

Charles Sumner Greene
American, 1868–1957
Made by Peter Hall Manufacturing Company
American, 1906–1922
Pasadena, California

At the height of their careers, Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene designed the Pasadena winter residence of the midwestern lumber baron Robert R. Blacker. The Blacker House (1907–09) marries Asian simplicity with the openness of California’s Hispanic haciendas and demonstrates the brothers’ masterful integration of an architectural plan with interior furnishings. This serving table—which Charles Greene designed for the Blacker House’s breakfast room—display hallmarks of his mature style. Here he combined exquisite workmanship and elaborate joinery with poetic details like ebony pegs and abstract cutaways on the table’s graceful floral inlay.

Status: On View, Gallery 178
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Charles Sumner Greene
Title: Serving Table
Place: Pasadena (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1907–1909
Medium: Mahogany, ebony, fruitwood, copper, and silver inlay
Dimensions: 75.8 × 91.5 × 56.2 cm (29 7/8 × 36 × 22 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund and Maurice D. Galleher Endowment
Reference Number: 1982.1207

Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. cat. 52.

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