A fascination with the western frontiers of our country in the last decades of the niniteenth century fostered the exhibition and acquisition of specific regional expressions in furniture like this curious horn chair with original ocelot upholstery. Probably produced in San Antonio by the German emigre furniture maker, Wenzel Friedrich, this type of chair can be seen in niniteenth-century photographs, punctuating the interior decoration of libraries, conservatories, billiard rooms, and rustic summer camps. This fashion was part of the romantic eclecticism of the period and helps us tell more fully the story of American taste and interiors.