An important Pottier & Stymus lounge chair commissioned for James Clair Flood's Linden Towers mansion in Menlo Park, CA, circa 1878. Executed in the Art Furniture taste, the oversized chair with a floral relief carved crest surmounting the padded arms resting on the relief carved acanthus decorated support and rising on casters, marked 'Flood and Billiard Room' under upholstery and numbered on frame, 46"h x 30"w x 28"d. Note: Linden Towers, a massive mansion built by the San Francisco millionaire James C. Flood, was regarded as the most elaborate country estate in the San Francisco Bay Area. With an estimated worth of $18 million in the 1870s, Flood spared no expense in building and furnishing his Menlo Park mansion, commissioning artisans from around the world and using only the finest materials and furnishings obtainable. The decor in each of the over 40 rooms was personally selected by Flood. Linden Towers mansion was torn down in 1934 and all of the extravagant contents were sold at public auction. Provenance: Purchased at the 1934 auction and removed from Linden Towers, thence retained in two private collections

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