Kimbel & Cabus

[6] Kimbel & Cabus won great acclaim at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a display of Modern Gothic furniture.

Two more-traditional Kimbel & Cabus commissions were for the interior woodwork of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (1875) and the Tenth Company Room at the Seventh Regiment Armory (1879–80).

By 1878, the American critic Clarence Cook was already pronouncing the Modern Gothic style passé: "There was a little while ago quite a rage for a certain style of furniture that made a great display of seeming steel hinges, key-plates, and handles, with inlaid tiles, carving of an ultra-Gothic type, and an appearance of the ingenuous truth-telling in the construction.

The chairs, tables and bedsteads looked as if they had been on the dissecting-table and flayed alive,—their joints and tendons displayed to an archaeologic and unfeeling world.

Cabus collaborated with Stanford White and Louis Comfort Tiffany on the interiors of the Villard Houses (1882–84),[9] and carved the Charles Follen McKim-designed pulpit for the Church of the Ascension (1884).

Kimbel & Cabus display at the 1876 Centennial Exposition
Modern Gothic drop-front desk ( c. 1875 ), Kimbel & Cabus trade catalogue, #382.
Angel (1887) by Abbott Handerson Thayer , Smithsonian American Art Museum , Washington, D.C. Cabus carved this Stanford White-designed "tabernacle" frame.