16 Facts About Daniel Pabst

Daniel Pabst was a German-born American cabinetmaker of the Victorian Era.

Daniel Pabst is credited with some of the most extraordinary custom interiors and hand-crafted furniture in the United States.

The most famous pieces attributed to Daniel Pabst are a Neo-Grec desk and chair made to the designs of Frank Furness.

Armchairs from the set, attributed to Furness and Daniel Pabst, are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania.

An 8-foot -tall Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is attributed to Daniel Pabst, and was once attributed to Furness.

Daniel Pabst received a medal for excellence at the 1876 Centennial Exposition for a large walnut sideboard :.

Daniel Pabst is credited with the elaborate, two-story interior of medieval scholar Henry Charles Lea's private library.

Daniel Pabst formed a partnership with Franz Krausz about 1854.

Late in life, Daniel Pabst made a list from memory of his customers.

William Daniel Pabst worked in his father's shop, and was listed as a partner in 1894.

Daniel Pabst retired in 1896 at age 70, but continued making furniture for friends and family members into his 80s.

Scholarship on Daniel Pabst rests on the foundational research begun in the early 1930s by Philadelphia Museum of Art curator of decorative arts Calvin Hathaway.

The largest collection of Daniel Pabst furniture is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Daniel Pabst was the most distinguished cabinetmaker in Philadelphia in the last quarter of the 19th century.

Daniel Pabst really did develop a unique and identifiable decorative vocabulary.

Daniel Pabst tended to envelop the object's architecture with a fine scale pattern; it was an invention of his own.