Decorative High Backed Arts and Crafts Armchair

Seating

£695.00

An unusual and exuberantly styled decorative Arts and Crafts armchair in stained birch wood.

The high back, flanked by downswept scrolled arms, comprises beaded vertical rails, between four shaped splats with applied embossed leather in foliate motifs. The uprights terminate in sinuous swan neck finials. Recently restored concave embossed chestnut leather seat with brass stud detailing. Below, two roundels with applied embossed leather motifs uniting a moulded frieze and the front stretcher.

At first, the chair’s unusual style might suggest its origins lie in America, Scandinavia or the Continent (a whiff of the Art Nouveau detectable, perhaps). We have, however, seen a small number of these, both as armchairs and rockers, and at least one bore the label of Turner, Son & Walker, cabinet manufacturers of 59 Bold Street, Liverpool, appearing in Kelly’s Directory of Liverpool & Birkenhead 1894, page 747. This could on the face of it suggest they were the makers of the chair, perhaps influenced by furniture arriving from a multitude of countries through Liverpool Docks, although they might equally have imported it.

Whatever its origins, this chair is a bold statement piece with great colour and lovely patina.

Dimensions:

Height of back: approximately 132 cm (52 inches)

Height of seat: 47 cm (18.5 inches)

Width: 63 cm (24.75 inches)

Depth: 58 cm (22.75 inches)

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