George Jakob Hunzinger gained recognition in late 19th-century New York for his innovative furniture design and, in 1997, had a show dedicated to his work - The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America - at The Brooklyn Museum of Art. This antique Hunzinger rocking chair is a celebration of technology for its time, as some of the frame is machine-made, and the seat and back feature a new upholstery method that Hunzinger patented in 1876.