Episode 2: 'Cast Iron Garden Chair' by The Furniture History Society published on 2021-12-15T18:30:37Z From the late eighteenth century, Prussia sought to build up its cast-iron industry and by the 1820s was producing a wide range of objects, from columns and railings to small-scale ornaments. Royal architect, Schinkel, was particularly interested in the material and in about 1825, he produced his first designs for cast-iron garden furniture for the gardens of the Prussian royal palaces. This chair is based on a design of about 1835 for the Römischen Bäder (a garden pavilion known as the Roman Baths) in the gardens at Potsdam. The design was produced for about thirty years by foundries all over Europe, with slight variations in the detail of the back, arms and feet. Serena Newmark will be our second speaker on our upcoming podcast series produced by Victoria Jenner in celebration of our Early Career Symposium. Episode two will thus discuss the materiality of this cast iron garden chair, with the support of Serena, a PhD student in Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin working on the Prussian design diaspora of the 19th century. Genre Learning