At the Paris World's Fair in 1900, Richard Riemerschmid designed a "Room for an Art Lover" to represent applied arts in Germany. Its furnishings included the music room chair seen here whose structural clarity contrasted sharply with the swirling complexity of the room's stucco frieze. Riemerschmid's original plaster relief, which recalled the interlacing designs of Viking and Celtic art, was destroyed after the close of the fair.