Posts Tagged ‘Chair’
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
GEORGE III PAINTED ARMCHAIRS - LIBRARY ARMCHAIR - GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR - DINING CHAIRS - HALL CHAIRS - GEORGE II UPHOLSTERED ARMCHAIR
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD ARMCHAIR, the moulded
frame with oval back with padded arms and downswept
supports, the moulded serpentine seatrail centred by an
anthemion clasp, raised on circular tapering fluted legs
with fluted oval feet, circa 1770.
A GEORGE [...]
Tags: ARMCHAIR, armchairs, cabriole, cabriole legs, Chair, CHAIRS, corner, dining, dining chairs, FRENCH, french style, GEORGE II, George III, GILTWOOD, HALL, LIBRARY, mahogany, mahogany chair, oval, Regency, side chairs, Upholstered, WHITE-PAINTED
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Mahogany Regency Chair - Gillows chair - Victorian Chair - Victorian Button-Back Mahogany ‘Ladies’ Chair
A mahogany Regency chair with lyre motif in the back, c.1825. The curved side rails and sabre legs are reeded to give a continuous effect. The drop-in seat is located by a peg set in the top of the front rail. [...]
Tags: cabriole, Chair, downward curve, eighteenth, french influence, Gillows, ladies chair, mahogany, octagonal, regency design, William IV
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Sheraton Single Chair in Mahogany with Straight Legs - A Regency Arm and Single Chair - Regency Mahogany Sabre-Leg Chair
A simpler Sheraton design with tapering legs normally made in mahogany, c. 1800. The arm uprights are of straightforward turning without the spiral reeding which adds greatly to price. An elegant and simple style
which remained popular [...]
Tags: ARMCHAIR, back chairs, bamboo, birch, Chair, construction, country, eighteenth century, furniture, Gothic, Lancashire, mahogany, nineteenth century, oak, quality chair, Regency, regency period, rosewood, Sabre, William IV
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Country Chippendale chair in mahogany - Hepplewhite chairs - Hepplewhite arm and single chair
Country Chippendale chair in mahogany c.1760. Fully upholstered seat covered in tapestry pattern fabric. A good example of a better quality country chair.
Mahogany Chippendale chair of pleasing simplicity and proportion, c.1780. The splat is elegantly curved and the back, though square in [...]
Tags: ARMCHAIR, Chair, chippendale, country, hepplewhite, Hepplewhite Chairs, mahogany, mahogany chair, oak, Queen Anne, robert adam, walnut
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
CHAIRS — children’s high
Here of course, one cannot judge a chair by its correctness of proportion as against the adult equivalent. Instead the test has to be how successfully the maker has elongated the piece while keeping in sympathy with the style of his period.
In this fine child’s oak chair the maker has got it [...]
Tags: 17th century, 19th century, Chair, CHAIRS, EARLY, hepplewhite, high chair, nineteenth century, oak, oak chair, seventeenth century, stretcher, Windsor, windsor chair
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
CHAIRS — children’s low
Very well made walnut child’s chair. Gloriously successful cabrioles, arms, legs and back. Only possible fault is that the back should perhaps be a fraction higher to be in proper proportion, but this is a very minor quibble about a superb piece. c.1720
An early eighteenth century child’s country chair; from the photograph [...]
Tags: acid, century, Chair, CHAIRS, curve, eighteenth century, hepplewhite, photograph, walnut, Windsor, yew
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
CHAIRS — country, Northern England
These chairs fall into distinct categories and can normally be allocated to various parts of the country. Basically, they are either ladderbacks, with or without a top rail, or backs made up of vertical spindles. A great deal of research has been and is being carried out on this subject. For [...]
Tags: Antique, ARMCHAIR, carver, Chair, CHAIRS, chippendale, Country Chairs, design, English, north cheshire
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Bentwood rocker
Bentwood chairs have become so much a part of our lives as to be almost invisible. In a simplified form they have been used in so many everyday places - shops, schools, private houses and public places - that it is difficult to imagine that their whole style was once a complete revolution in [...]
Tags: Bentwood, bentwood chairs, Biedermeier, birch, Chair, design, eighteenth, England, FRENCH, furniture, Germany, laminated wood, Legs, London, michael thonet, restoration, rockers, Vienna, Windsor
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Victorian button-back chair
The relative austerity of Regency furniture and the soft clinging clothes worn by the ladies of the period were ousted during William IV’s reign by the new ‘Naturalistic’ line. Furniture became more curvaceous, seats of chairs wider to accommodate the increasing volume of ladies’ skirts and gentlemen’s frock coats, both of which were [...]
Tags: Adam, back chair, button back, Chair, CHAIRS, drawing rooms, Legs, mahogany, Regency, regency furniture, restoration, velvet, victorian period, walnut, William IV
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Sheraton chair
Even at its most decorative and ornate, Sheraton furniture is made with very little integral ornament, and relies for its originality and sparkle on painting and gilding, inlay and japanning. Sheraton was puritan by conviction and by nature, favouring straight lines rather than curves, and multipurpose space-saving furniture for the ranks of Georgian terraced [...]
Tags: ARMCHAIR, birch, Cabinet, Chair, chair frame, CHAIRS, EARLY, eighteenth, furniture, furniture manufacturers, hepplewhite, japanning, leg, mahogany, nineteenth century, satinwood, seat frames, space saving furniture, thomas sheraton
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