1. Charles Rohlfs, was an American actor, patternmaker, stove designer and furniture maker.
10 Facts About Charles Rohlfs
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Charles Rohlfs was born in Brooklyn and studied at the Cooper Union in Manhattan.
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Charles Rohlfs received several patents for stove designs, but had limited success as an actor.
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Charles Rohlfs's father-in-law had been prominent in the Republican Party in New York City, and in 1896, Charles Rohlfs participated in public debates in support of William McKinley's presidential campaign.
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Charles Rohlfs designed and made furniture for his family's use as early as 1888, but he did not commence his decade-long career as a professional furniture maker until 1897.
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Charles Rohlfs participated at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York in December 1900.
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Charles Rohlfs is the only American furniture maker known to have participated in the International Exposition of Decorative Art in Turin in 1902.
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Charles Rohlfs actively campaigned for child labor reform and was an advocate of the metric system.
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Charles Rohlfs died on June 30,1936, in Buffalo, New York.
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An exhibition, entitled The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, was organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Chipstone Foundation and American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation.