[Chair] Mecene Jacques was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and immigrated to the United States, where he set up a studio close to Washington, D.C. He sculpts furniture and other pieces that feature motifs drawn from his cultural heritage. Jacques carved this chair in the form of a mermaid, a symbolic figure common in parts of the Caribbean.

Courtesy of the Anacostia Museum

Mermaid Chair, 1994-95, by Mecene Jacques (b. 1925), United States, mahogany

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