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Dining Room, page 2 of 3
Dining Room Furniture
Purcell used a dining-room suite at Lake Place that he originally had designed for the Catherine Gray house. Its green color didn't match the scheme of the new house, but its three-table system allowed for frequent dining on the back porch. In January 1915, the journal The Western Architect published photographs of the house, which now contained furniture that Elmslie had designed for Mrs. William H. Hanna, a Chicago client. The mahogany suite, with detachable leaves and chairs similar to the "surprise-point" chairs, was made by John S. Bradstreet and Company, and showed "how splendid the room could be with suitable decorative equipment." A reproduction of the Hanna suite, complete with iridescent art-glass inlays and silver-plated accent rods, are now on view in the dining room, along with two reproduction chairs from Purcell's green suite. Four permanent light standards provide atmospheric light, and Lawton Parker's framed painting Island Lake evokes Purcell's childhood summer home in northern Wisconsin. next page >
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