Furniture at the Carnegie Museum of Art

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Art, Canon, Canon 5D Mark III, Carnegie, Carnegie Museum Art, Design, Desk, EOS 24-105 L Lens, Furniture, Museum, Pennsylvania, photo, photography, Pittsburgh

Besides wonderful oil paintings and sculpture at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania there was more interesting and unusual furniture.

This desk was pretty in gold inlay and a dark color and I walked by it until I realized it was not wood at all but all buffalo horn with inlaid gold.  I can’t imagine how hard it was to make.

ISO 1250, F/4, 1/30 sec, 40 mm Lens

This next piece was kind of a “Craftsman” like piece with inlays of metal and a mirror. The wood is quarter cut “tiger” oak:

ISO 2000, F/4, 1/30 sec, 28 mm Lens

ISO 2000, F/4, 1/30 sec, 28 mm Lens

I liked the large vertical strap hinges and the heart shaped metal inlays.