The Wallace Collection

Display & Special Talks on the Innovative Work of Cabinet-Maker Johann Fiedler

Saturday 6th June, 2009 - Sunday 29th November, 2009

Price: Admission Free

This six-month exhibition in the lower ground floor Conservation Gallery features a superb commode (chest-of-drawers) made c.1786 by the German Tischlermeister Johann Gottlob Fiedler. This important piece of furniture is one of a small group of similar cabinets made for patrons such as Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, later King Friedrich Wilhelm II. During its recent conservation in the workshops of the Wallace Collection a number of hitherto unnoticed innovative features were discovered, now revealed for the first time in this exhibition.


Talks on Johann Gottlob Fiedler
By Dr Achim Stiegel & Jurgen Huber

Thursday 15 October 2009, 3.00pm-5.00pm
£7 per head to include tea

Dr Achim Stiegel, curator at the Kunstgewerbe Museum Berlin, will present the latest research on the cabinet making of Johann Gottlob Fiedler and in particular the small group of cabinets made for patrons such as Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, later King Friedrich Wilhelm II. Following this, Jűrgen Huber, Senior Conservator at the Wallace Collection, will discuss the recent conservation of the Wallace Collection’s superb Fiedler commode, made c. 1786, and the innovative features discovered in its construction. The commode is the subject of a special exhibition in the Conservation Gallery, Vorsprung durch Technik: the innovative work of the cabinet-maker Johann Gottlob Fiedler (6 June – 29 November 2009).

To book, please contact:
Clarissa Ward Furniture History Society Activities Secretary 25 Wardo Avenue London SW6 6RA tel. 0207 384 4458; email furniturehistorysociety@hotmail.com
Cheques should be made payable to the Furniture History Society.