Turned wood and canning chair, XIXth c.

Large turned wood Baroque style chair.

Large turned wood Baroque style chair.

Large turned wood Baroque style chair.

COD-Z63 Pair of chairs in turned and gilded wood with upholstered seat with original embroidered fabric. Italy, early XX Century.

Vienna Chair, circa 1875, Jacob & Josef Kohn. Bent, turned and stained wood. Back and seat decorated with mascaroni and mythological creatures. Old label, Jacob & Josef Kohn. Wax pol...

An antique hand-carved late Victorian wooden chair with rush wicker back and iron fixture at crest, late 19th century or early 20th. Please note the photo against the window with the...

Pair of Italian turned wood and vintage rope chairs from the 1990s

Charming Neo Renaissance style chair dating from the 19th century. Its straight base is connected by a spacer. The seat is in cane. The backrest is completely carved with columns and...

Mid-century designers were eager to break free from the aesthetics of the past and experiment with new forms, and techniques. At the same time, especially in Europe, the modernist design movement was often based on traditional styles and techniques, such as turned chairs. Turned chairs — sometimes called thrown chairs or spindle chairs — represent a style of Elizabethan or Jacobean turned furniture that had a vogue in the late 16th and early 17th century. The technique was carried on to the 20th century and was widespread in Europe as well, where craftsmen created durable pieces for various interiors and purposes. In turned furniture, the individual wooden spindles of the piece were made by shaping them with chisels and gouges while they were being spun, or turned between the centre points of a lathe. The construction of this pair is evocative of the more robust Arts and Crafts Movement, featuring subtle decorative elements such as the finials atop the backs. The sphere-shaped finials aren’t the only ornamentations on the design; the shape of the two splats on the back, the carved stretchers and carving on the feet are all decorative features that make this pair visually arresting. In later turned chairs, like this pair, rush seats were common. Here, the seats are woven around the frames with a light colour that beautifully contrasts to the dark, patinated wood. The partnership of the two natural materials is very effective as well; the wood and rush pair...

Set of 4 Antique Turned Wood Chairs – Woven Rope Seat – 1940s Elegant and full of charm, these four vintage chairs date from the 1940s. Their turned wood frame gives them a rustic a...