page_title: Daniel Pabst
section_title: Examples of his work
hierarchical_section_title: Daniel Pabst / Examples of his work
caption_attribution_description: English: Exhibit in the Brooklyn Museum - Brooklyn, New York, USA. This artwork is in the public domain because the artist died more than 70 years ago. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.
context_page_description: Daniel Pabst was a German-born American cabinetmaker of the Victorian Era. He is credited with some of the most extraordinary custom interiors and hand-crafted furniture in the United States. Sometimes working in collaboration with architect Frank Furness, he made pieces in the Renaissance Revival, Neo-Grec, Modern Gothic, and Colonial Revival styles. Examples of his work are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
context_section_description: Renaissance Revival sideboard (c. 1860s), deaccessioned from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, private collection.
  Renaissance Revival music cabinet (c. 1865–70), made for Beauveau Borie, deaccessioned from High Museum of Art, private collection.
  Pair of Renaissance Revival sideboards (c. 1869), made for Henry Pratt McKean and Thomas J. McKean, private collections.
  Renaissance Revival sideboard (c. 1870), Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, Delaware.
  Neo-Grec library table (c. 1870), design attributed to Frank Furness, made for Henry C. Gibson, Detroit Institute of Arts.
  Ebonized pedestal (c. 1870), Cleveland Museum of Art.
  "Fox and Crane" sideboard (c. 1870–80), Art Institute of Chicago.
  Furness-Pabst bookcases (1870–71), made for the city house of Horace Howard Furness, one bookcase is at the University of Pennsylvania, the rest are in private collections.
  Neo-Grec armchair (c. 1871), made for the city house of Horace Howard Furness, private collection.
  Neo-Grec armchair (1871–76), made for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, design attributed to Frank Furness, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Another armchair from the set is at the Allentown Art Museum.
  Neo-Grec dining table (1873), designed by Frank Furness, made for Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
  Neo-Grec bedroom suite – bed, armoire, table, 2 chairs, settee – (1873), made for Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Oyster Bay, New York.
  Neo-Grec side chair, (1873), made for the library of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., private collection.
  Modern Gothic pedestal (c. 1875), design attributed to Frank Furness, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
  Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet (c. 1875), Brooklyn Museum. It has a fragment of a handwritten label that may have originally read "Pabst" and "Philadelphia."
  Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet (c. 1875), Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York.
  Modern Gothic smokers cabinet (c. 1875), private collection.
  Modern Gothic Campeche-style chair (c. 1875–80), design attributed to Furness, private collection.
  Ebonized fire screen (c. 1875-95) – sold at Christie's New York, October 14, 1999 – private collection.
  Modern Gothic cabinetwork & furniture (1876–77), Glenview Mansion, Yonkers, New York:
  Entrance hall: paneling, ebonized columns, shingled-roof door frames, mantel. The shingled-roof overmantel is a re-creation.
  Staircase.
  Library: ebonized chimneypiece & bookcases.
  Sitting room: 2 cameo-carved maple exhibition cabinets.
  Parlor: mantel (with dog-faced beasts).
  Dining room: "Fox and Crane" buffet base. The black walnut mantel, described as "massive" in 1877, was removed in the 1930s.
  Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet (c. 1877–80), Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  Social Arts Club mantel & furniture – library table, console, chairs, map case – (1878), designed by Frank Furness. Renamed the Rittenhouse Club, it sold the clubhouse in the 1990s, and auctioned off the mantel and furniture.
  Emlen Physick House (1878), Cape May, New Jersey. Furness designed (and Pabst likely made) the interior woodwork, and 2 bedroom suites original to the house. The cartouche on one bed's headboard is repeated in a stained glass window.
  Pair of Modern Gothic pedestals (c. 1880), deaccessioned from Newark Museum, private collection.
  Ebonized chair (c. 1880), Brooklyn Museum.
  Modern Gothic maple bedroom suite (c. 1880) – bed, bureau with mirror, nightstand, armchair – private collection.
  "Baby Doe" Tabor bedroom suite (c. 1882–83) – bed, bureau with mirror – History Colorado Center, Denver.
  Colonial Revival desk (1901), exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, whereabouts unknown.
caption: Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet (c. 1875), Brooklyn Museum. The floral roundel is veneered ash, cameo-carved to reveal the black walnut underneath.
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