lockwood de forest (june 8, 1850 – april 3, 1932) was an american painter, interior designer and furniture designer. a key figure in the aesthetic movement, he introduced the east indian craft revival to gilded age america. as a young man, de forest first worked as a painter, taking the lessons of his hudson river school contemporaries. in 1879, de forest began his career in the decorative arts working at associated artists along with…