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'Frances Elkins understood all periods and styles and she snatched up the best parts of each and put them together in her own fresh way - she looked at things through a historical perspective, inflecting her modern sensibility. Of all David Adler's houses, the Reed House is perhaps the most inspiring. From one room to the next you are struck by the opposing design sensibilities but it all works so harmoniously. It's one brilliant, mad thing after another...and the interiors wouldn't have that kind of style without Frances Elkins.'
- Miles Redd, interior designer
DINING ROOM
A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CABINET
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS
Details
A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CABINET
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS
Serpentine with egg-and-dart rim, above two pairs of doors with blind fretwork angled corners, on a plinth
34¼ in. (87 cm.) high, 55½ in. (141 cm.) wide, 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep
LATE 19TH CENTURY, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS
Serpentine with egg-and-dart rim, above two pairs of doors with blind fretwork angled corners, on a plinth
34¼ in. (87 cm.) high, 55½ in. (141 cm.) wide, 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep
Literature
A. O. Patterson, 'On the High Bluffs of Lake Forest near Chicago', Town and Country, 15 January 1934, pp. 24.
S. M. Salny, 'Historic Interiors: Frances Elkins. A Surviving Example of the Noted Designers Work', Architectural Digest, July 1980, p. 89.
S. M. Salny, 'Frances Elkins: A Forward-Looking Icon of European Chic and American Style', Architectural Digest (Interior Design Legends), January 2000, p. 167.
S. M. Salny, The Country Houses of David Adler, 2001, p. 140.
S. E. Cohen and S. S. Benjamin, North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburb 1890-1940, New York, 2004, p. 281.
S. M. Salny, Frances Elkins: Interior Design, 2005, p. 69.
S. M. Salny, 'Historic Interiors: Frances Elkins. A Surviving Example of the Noted Designers Work', Architectural Digest, July 1980, p. 89.
S. M. Salny, 'Frances Elkins: A Forward-Looking Icon of European Chic and American Style', Architectural Digest (Interior Design Legends), January 2000, p. 167.
S. M. Salny, The Country Houses of David Adler, 2001, p. 140.
S. E. Cohen and S. S. Benjamin, North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburb 1890-1940, New York, 2004, p. 281.
S. M. Salny, Frances Elkins: Interior Design, 2005, p. 69.