615963 Side chair, 1900 (walnut, leather & brass tacks) by Gaillard, Eugene (1862-1933); 93.9x45.7x54.6 cm; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA; (add.info.: This side chair was originally part of a complete dining room suite acquired in 1900 from Samuel Bing\'s \'L\'Art Nouveau\' shop in Paris by Mr. and Mrs. Knut Andersson, a Swedish couple on their honeymoon. For the great Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, Bing concentrated exclusively on the work of French designers, presenting a pavilion with rooms decorated to resemble a luxuriously appointed modern interior. The chair\'s curvaceous form and undulating whiplash motif (seen in the hand-tooled leather) are the hallmarks of French Art Nouveau. ); 穢 Minneapolis Institute of Art; Gift of the Decorative Arts Council; French, out of copyright.