page_title: Kimbel and Cabus
section_title: McKim, Mead & White
hierarchical_section_title: Kimbel and Cabus / McKim, Mead & White
caption_attribution_description: Angel
context_page_description: Kimbel and Cabus was a Victorian-era furniture and decorative arts firm based in New York City. The partnership was formed in 1862 between German-born cabinetmaker Anthony Kimbel and French-born cabinetmaker Joseph Cabus. The company was noted for its Modern Gothic and Anglo-Japanese style furniture, which it popularized at the 1876 Centennial Exposition.
context_section_description: Cabus collaborated with Stanford White and Louis Comfort Tiffany on the interiors of the Villard Houses (1882–84), and carved the Charles Follen McKim-designed pulpit for the Church of the Ascension (1884). He carved White-designed picture frames "from roughly 1882 to 1894," and constructed White's original wood-and-plaster Washington Square Arch (1889, replaced by current arch 1892). Under McKim, Mead & White, Cabus also executed the finer woodworking for James Gordon Bennett, Jr.'s office in the Western Union Building (1885, demolished), the interior of Bennett's yacht, Namouna (1885, destroyed), the Anne W. Cheney House in South Manchester, Connecticut (1887, demolished), the first Plaza Hotel (1888, demolished), and the Metropolitan Club (1893–94). Following Cabus's 1894 death, his son Alexander took over the carving of White's picture frames.
caption: Angel (1887) by Abbott Handerson Thayer, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Cabus carved this Stanford White-designed "tabernacle" frame.
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