British Seating

Early 20th Century Swivel Stool This antique swivel stool showcases a timeless, functional design, characteristic of the early 20th century. Its ...

A very long and sought after Regency mahogany hall bench, with oversized shaped arm rests featuring carved shells to the fronts and a well figured cut of mahogany timber to the seat....

We are delighted to offer for sale absolutely stunning pair of vintage oversized George Hepplewhite wingback armchairs with the Philadelphia oversized wings These are a showstoppi...

A pair of elegant, modern, low, round ottomans. Handmade in England. Newly upholstered in a premium, soft, pure gold mohair fabric with solid oak feet. Priced and sold as a pair...

Armchair made from dark green anodised aluminium extrusions and woven cane seating. Originally realised for the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield and inspired by Donald Judd and Børge M...

1950s Pel – Cox Tubular Metal Outdoor Dining Chairs With Blue Seats – Quantity Available 1950’s Pel – Cox Tubular Metal Outdoor Dining Chairs With Blue Seats –...

Dagmar Design Blek Ottoman A custom-made round ottoman with solid wood frame developed & produced at our workshops in London. This examples have frames in oiled European oak an...

English mahogany corner chair with wavy ladder back, overupholstered seat and unique brass and wood armature for music or book reading. Also nicely sized for marrying the 18th and 2...

Early 19th Century English mahogany wing chair with ball and claw feet. Covered in hessian and ready to be reupholstered.

English country antique Windsor armchair with spindle and open splat round back, (19th century).

We delight to offer for sale this stunning set of eight hooped back dining chairs with back bar carved circular motifs above an upholstered drop-in seat, inlaid roundel to top of leg...

A large sized mid 19th century walnut slipper chair with a serpentine front rail. Raised on quality walnut turned front legs with splayed walnut legs to the rear and all with the ori...

An elegant pair of modern lounge chairs. Handmade beech frames, sprung seat and newly upholstered in a premium, soft, pure alpaca wool fabric. Fast shipping worldwide.

Set of 4 English Charles II style (19th Century) oak Derbyshire side chairs with 2 horizontal arched splats above turned legs joined by stretchers (PRICED AS SET).

English Blue Chesterfield Style Tufted Leather Captains Chair Office Chair Dimensions : 32.5" Tall X 24" Wide X 21" Deep This chair was made in...

We are delighted to offer for sale very rare, original Victorian circa 1860 Howard & Son’s Chesterfield sofa with the original ticking fabric and long, ...

We are delighted to offer for sale Stunning Pair of French Art Deco Chrome Aviator Armchairs. Beautiful pair of chairs, they have been well looked after and loved, they do have som...

We are delighted to offer for sale our first ever range of Luxury, prototype, custom made armchairs, they are oversized, Howard style love seat / ...

An English William and Mary style oak youth chair from the late 18th century, with rush seat and spindle back. This English oak chair features a straight s...

We are delighted to offer for sale this original Victorian circa 1860-1880 fully restored oxblood leather Knole sofa with overstuff feather filled cushions. This sofa was fully rest...

An Original Art Deco luxurious rich turquoise blue velvet fan back cocktail chair with metal feet 1930s very much in the style of Wittmann. No branding or labels. Additional dimen...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this sublime pair of circa 1880-1900 hand carved side chairs depicting swans, hand painted in green with gol...

Great set of 12 paint decorated 19th century faux bamboo armchairs with cane seats and custom made cushions.

English arts and crafts brown walnut armchair, attributed to JS Henry circa 1900. Scrolled terminals atop a solid back and seat newly upholstered in off-white...

A fine set of ten 19th century English Chippendale style mahogany dining room chairs. The set includes eight side chairs and two armchairs. The front legs have carved ball and claw f...

Boole Bench in Welded Mirror-Polished Stainless Steel by Julian Mayor Limited Edition of 8 Pieces. Dimensions: D 40 x W 140 x H 45 cm. Materials: Mirror-polished stainless steel. J...

An English bleached oak bench from the 19th century with carved wooden back, downswept arms, cabriole legs and custom cushion. This exquisite English bleached oak bench from the 19th...

The Shark Daybed was designed and crafted in-house by Founder and Furniture Designer Oliver A-J using the finest materials. Available in almost limitless variations, the Shark Daybed...

A contemporary solid-wood all-purpose stackable chair produced using the latest production technologies of shaped wooden furniture. The design boasts ...

An English Egyptian Revival walnut Thebes stool from the early 20th century, with slatted curving seat and faux bamboo legs. Born in England during the Roaring 1920s, this Thebes sto...

A late Regency mahogany scroll end sofa, with a detachable back, with blue striped fabric, squab cushion and pair of bolsters, the fra...

Dimitri Omersa, originally from Yugoslavia, arrived in Hitchin, England in 1955 and entered the leather trade. There, he met a Liberty's of London designer known as 'Old Bill,' who...

Antiques of London We are delighted to offer for sale this vintage Pair Of Custom-made Connaught armchairs. The epitome of bespoke comfort and timeless elegance, crafted by the ...

An exceptional Howard and Sons ‘Grantley’ sofa. This original Grantley H&S model sofa features down-filled outswept armrests that sit at the same height as the back, giving the sofa...

Wylie and Lochhead Glasgow. A set of six Arts and Crafts oak dining chairs with circular and line decoration to the back rest. Dimensions: Chairs H 105 cm x W 45 x D 42 cm; Armchairs...

A Regency gilded wood window seat, the panelled frieze inset with carved paterae, supported by a naturalistically carved ‘x’ frame base. Upholstered i...

Small antique oak stool with canework A charming low stool with an intricately hand-caned seat, likely late 19th to early 20th century. The turned legs and stretcher add a graceful ...

Such a beautiful and striking piece. Our Shelburne Daybed (also available as an armchair) certainly holds court and can be crafted in any combination of fabrics and leathers and var...

Liberty & Co “Stanmore” Arts and Crafts oak barrel back chair, solid seat with original dark oak finish. Shaped slatted feet. Illustrated Liberty & Co Yuletide Gifts Catalogue 1900 ...

Sold and priced individually.  One available/one sold. A striking ‘Omega’ armchair by Habitat, this iconic design was crafted in England between 1985 and 1997. Defined by a sleek tu...

A George III Style Armchair in the Manner of Thomas Chippendale reupholstered White Paris Boucle fabric All original, with newly upholstered drop in seat. Wonderful carvings raised ...

Arts & Crafts oak reclining chair, designed by Ambrose Heal (1872–1959) for Heals of London. Circa 1905. Stamped: Sesame lounge registered design 4...

Inspired by Thomas Hope and the furnishings at Deepdene house. A pair of bench stools with six monopodae supports united by brass cross-stretche...

Rare armchair called joined arm chair from the beginning of the 17th century Charles I period. We see it from the same region as that one of Sothobys with a superb carved back dec...

We are delighted to offer for sale this pair of finest quality Waring & Gillow Lancaster, Walnut inlaid side occasional or bedroom chairs which are part of a large suite. This piece is part of a bedroom set, I have in total a triple bank wardrobe...

Royal House Antiques We are delighted to offer this absolutely stunning suite of, Mid Century Modern, Gordon Russell, Circa 1970 Rosewood framed dining chairs designed by Martin Hal...

We are delighted to offer this very rare and important suite of five fully restored C Hindley & Son’s dining chairs circa 1844-1845 These are a very important and substantial set of chairs, they have been fully restored to include being stripped back to the bare frames, all the timber has been washed back and French polished , they have then been resprung using the original period coil sprung bases, new webbing fitted, then upholstered with premium Italian cattle grade fully aniline plain natural leather which has been individually hand nail tacked in place using antiqued studs, lastly hand dyed six times and antiqued to give it this one off cigar brown colour. These chairs have been on a journey as mentioned and they are true investment pieces, ready to serve the new owner for decades to come. Usually, I wouldn’t take dining chairs through such an expensive process however the carving to the legs is so sublime they warranted the treatment, I have never seen such beautiful Lion’s mains and terminating with hairy paws with recessed castors, these are simply put the finest dining chairs on the market anywhere in the world today you can buy. Dimensions Height:- 94.5cm Width:- 57cm Depth:- 74cm Seat height:- 50cm ABOUT THE CABINET MAKERS Hindley, Charles & Sons Berners Street & Oxford Street, London; cabinet makers, upholsterers and retailers (fl.c.1820-1892) Charles Hugh Hindley (b.1792- d.1871) was the son of Christopher, a merchant in Mere, Wiltshire. He moved to London with an elder brother to live with his uncle, who was possibly running the London branch of the Wiltshire business. In 1817 Charles joined the upholstery firm of Benjamin Merriman Nias at 32 Berners Street. Within a few years he bought the Nias business with a £1,000 investment from his family. Despite his business being described as a 'carpet warehouse' in London directories from 1820-1841, by the mid-1830s upholstery and cabinet work had joined his repertoire and he had taken on more showroom space next door at 31 Berners Street. Family records of the 1840s showed that individual custom-order business expanded to also ‘supplying established furnishing houses with goods on wholesale terms’. Jobs ranged from supplying Pentonville Prison with 100 hair mattresses and pillows, to altering spring roller blinds, to fulfilling private commissions with suites of parlour furniture. Hindley was the father of eleven children with three involved in the business: Charles Hugh (b. 1818), Frederick (b. 1820), and Albert Daniel (b.1822). Charles Hugh and Frederick joined the family firm about 1832, thus establishing the family partnership, Charles Hindley & Sons. Albert Daniel learned the carpet manufactory and trade in Kidderminster and eventually established a carpet manufactory in Liversedge, Yorkshire, supplying the family’s London store and others. In 1845 he patented an early tufted carpeting technique. Charles Hindley & Sons acquired the firm, Miles & Edwards in September 1844, including their premises at 134 Oxford Street. Both companies operated from this address until 1845 when Miles & Edwards was closed. The purchase of Miles & Edwards enabled Hindley & Co. to compete with other West End firms by offering everything from cabinet making and upholstery to painted decoration and interior design for the middle and upper class market. In a sample of 737 orders from October 1842-June 1845, six per cent of the clientele were upper and lower aristocracy with approximately seventy per cent gentry or middle class. The aristocratic clientele included the surnames of Hoare, Kirland, Drummond, Montefiore, Ashburton and Rothschild, and the Oriental Club at 18 Hanover Square (1824). Commissions were also executed for: Lady Fetherstonaugh at Uppark: bills dating 1852 and 1862 for furniture and curtains C B E Wright of Bolton Hall, Yorkshire: decorative wood panels The Earl of Dudley at Himley Hall, Staffordshire: a carved gilt wood centre table with mosaic top, dated 1845 and a bedroom suite (sold by Hampton & Sons, July 1924) Sir Clifford Constable at Burton Constable (1849) George Hammond Lucy at Charlecote Park: carpeting (19 December 1844) The Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle The Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle Lord and Lady Burton of Burton-on-Trent Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall, Durham. Buckingham Palace: a small supply of Chintz wall covering for some rooms (1855) Surviving marked furniture by Hindley & Co. includes a stamped Regency kidney-shaped desk, veneered in yew and panelled with boxwood and ebony inlay, ornamented with finely-chased mounts and beadings, c.1830 [Connoiseur, November 1978], which is possibly the one illustrated in Gilbert (1996), fig. 498, and a walnut writing table with a raised set of drawers, 1840s, stamped C. Hindley & Sons, illus. (Gilbert (1996), fig. 497 and sold by Sotheby’s, 5 August 1981, lot 209. The staff at 134 Oxford Street comprised management, sales staff, designers, foreman, clerks, cabinet makers, chair makers, upholsterers, carvers, carpenters and French polishers. They also contracted tradesmen specialising in particular decorative and finishing techniques; such as Joseph Spong, a japanner, and William Stannard, a carver and gilder, who supplied significant orders, 1845-46. Stannard was also recorded in the stock book for ‘Repairing, Cleaning and Varnishing 18 Paintings [frames] £9.0.0’. Family records describe several employees: ‘a large and very ancient carpenter named Tomlinson… a cabinetmaker named Westbrook... [and] a foreman named Sorrel’. Charles Hindley & Sons showed a large Gothic sideboard at the Great Exhibition in 1851, inspired by Pugin (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 86) and they exhibited a Gothic bookcase and large sideboard at the 1862 International Exhibition, London (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 88). Both were elaborately carved pieces, described in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue as ‘evidence of sound judgment and advanced taste in the designer, and of able and skilful workmanship’. They also participated in the Building Trades Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 7 April 1883]. They exhibited Japanese leather papers at the Manchester Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition, 1882, and were awarded a silver medal for embossed leather wall hangings at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 18 November 1882 & 10 May 10 May 1884]. They also participated in the Workman’s Exhibition at Central Hall in Holborn, 1890 [The Furniture Gazette, 15 April 1890]. The designers did not sign their work but about fifteen different people were probably involved during the fifty-year period. One designer who worked in the late 1880s was J. Armstrong Stenhouse. He and the cabinet makers, G. R. Mackenzie, D. MacLennan and D. F. Lavach, as well as the carver, F. Lucas, worked on two Hindley exhibition pieces for the 2nd exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, London An archive of 114 drawings (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was collated by Charles Albert Hindley (1863-1947), a grandson of the founder. These designs c.1844-1883 (some illustrated in ?Microulis, Furniture History?(2001), figs 1-16.), reflected the current trends of reinterpreted styles such as Gothic and Louis, and several seated furniture designs were labelled with specific commercial names such as the ‘Victoria Chair...

19th-century settee, the well-carved shaped frame, having sweeping arms and foliated carved seat rail all raised on cabriole supports terminating in scrolling toes. Dimensions Height 36 Inches...

A good quality Victorian leather reclining armchair by Foots Patent Chairs. Having a reclining back, and two opening arms, above a pull out adjustable stool. The chair is in excellen...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super rare, totally original, Howard & Son's Berners street fully stamped Bridgewater model armchair wi...

A set of four mahogany Regency style dining chairs, consisting of one armchair and three side chairs with upholstered seats. Recently upholstered. Q...

A pair of English mahogany stools from the 19th century with turned legs resting on casters and upholstered seats. This exquisite pair of English mahogany stools features elegantly t...

Large 19th century English carved oak armchair featuring a ladder back design and a rush seat. Sits on massive turned legs with box stretching. Wide elbow chair arms and a warm, rich...

Two Royal Designers for Industry, one from the world of furniture design, and one from the world of Formula 1 racing car design collaborated. With an ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare, original William IV Circa 1830, fully restored, Chesterfield Regency Green leather Piano bench...

A sensational pair of English 19th century Garden Arm Chairs. Soundly constructed from iron with iron mesh netting backs and seats. The c...

A late Victorian Sheraton revival painted satinwood two-seat settee, the double shield back and curved arms set upon square tapering front legs and outswept back legs, painted in pol...

Edwardian jockey scales in oak by Avery with its original patina, there are shrinkage splits around the motif, a pleasant light honey colour.

This is a very comfy and desirable pair of mid-19th century club chairs in the style of Howard & Sons. These generous chairs are in the very traditional English country house style and feature ivory lacquered turned legs with their original casters. The chairs have been newly upholstered in a Clarence House nubby linen velvet in a malachite color way --- they are further detailed with a Ralph Lauren Paisley...

Folk Art stick chair from the English Countryside. Thick seat and surprisingly comfortable. Wonderful piece of sculpture with great patina. Seat height ...