Charles Rohlfs

Furniture maker, born in New York City, New York, USA. After working as a stove designer and an actor, he established a Buffalo workshop to produce oak furniture, first in the simpler arts and crafts, then in the more ornate Art Nouveau styles. International exhibits brought fame and commissions to design interiors, to make furniture for the Adirondacks camps of the wealthy, and even to make a set of chairs for Buckingham Palace.

Charles Rohlfs (* 1853 New York, † 1936 Buffalo, New York), designer of furniture, was an actor in Boston from 1868. Rohlfs then began designing furniture and found world-wide recognition. After an exhibition in Turin 1902 Rohlfs was given membership to the Royal Society of Arts in London and was commissioned to produce furniture for Buckingham Palace, London.