Chinoiserie Office Chairs and Desk Chairs

"Vintage Davis Cabinet Company student desk and chair. Made of teakwood featuring asian styling with rectangular form, four drawers and faux bamboo black vinyl side chair. Circa late 20th century, Nashville Tennessee. These words of our venerable leader introduce this short history of our firm which began in 1929. There are certainly older furniture companies ---- and obviously younger ones, but quite likely, none with a more romantic history or a more Horatio Alger-like history than ours. Davis Cabinet Company began as the dream of one man, Lipscomb ""Lip"" Davis, and as is the case with most dreams, this one ---- the impractical idea of building fine furniture from solid wood ---- was thought to be an impossibility. Wood, like steel and iron and most other substances, expands and contracts with climate changes. Furniture built of solid wood must of necessity rack itself to pieces through the inexorable changes of expansion and contraction. Lipscomb Davis thought otherwise. His personal philosophy might be expressed as ""Anything can be accomplished if it is done correctly"", and to this end he had already conceived and engineered a startling new concept of free floating construction that would allow the solid wood case construction to move at will . . . . naturally . . . and thereby avoid the stresses of climatic change. The opportunity to test the idea came dramatically in 1929 ---- but we're getting a bit ahead of our story. While Davis Cabinet Company was formed in 1929, it really had its beginnings around the turn of the century as a sawmill located near Fifth Street on the banks of the Cumberland River. The mill produced lumber from logs rafted down the river from neighboring forests. A ready market existed for most of the high grade lumber turned out by the mill. But, in order to utilize their entire production, the enterprising mill owners formed a subsidiary business, Standard Furniture Company. Here, they manufactured primarily veneered bedroom suites and sewing machine cabinets...

19th century chinoiserie English bamboo leather top lacquer desk and chair. Listing includes a tooled black leather 3 panel top, bamboo frame, hand painted floral accents, 7 drawers,...

19th century chinoiserie English bamboo leather top lacquer desk and chair. Listing includes a tooled black leather 3 panel top, bamboo frame, hand painted floral accents, 7 drawers,...

The antique black Japanned armchair in the Queen Anne style with upholstered seat is decorated with a Oriental figure crossing a bridge with a flowering ...

English mid-18th century George III Chinese Chippendale open armchair in mahogany, c. 1765 A generously proportioned, early George III pe...

Super quality oriental desk and chair circa 1920. Desk with matching desk in chinoiserie decoration in gold and red on black background. Desk wit...