Morgan Colt
United States
Early 20th century
Wrought iron, leather, linen thread
25″ wide x 19″ deep x 18 1/2″ high

Morgan Colt (1876-1926) was an American architect, designer, craftsman, and painter. After studying and practicing architecture in New York, he moved to New Hope, PA, where he opened “Colt’s Gothic Shop”, a place for designing and fabricating ornamental iron furniture, doors and chests. He was largely inspired by Gothic and Italian Renaissance motifs, as well as the Arts and Crafts Movement. Colt was also instrumental in establishing the New Hope Art Colony, a landscape painting school that played a major part in the American Impressionist movement of the early 20th century. Although he was a prolific painter, today he is celebrated primarily for his ironwork furniture.

This pair of wrought iron folding stools have a sloping x-form with decorative elements. The originally leather seats have been newly conditioned and restitched.