Leon Benouville, an Art Nouveau Oak Desk or Side Chair with Subtle Organic Lines

Gillows of Lancaster attributed. A rare set of 16 + 6 aesthetic movement oak upholstered dining or boardroom chairs with turned front legs. (The price...

A pair of French Art Nouveau oak dining chairs with organic back design turned front legs and whiplash side stretchers in the true Nancy ...

Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851-1942), a highly important oak chair, with an Art Nouveau floral back. Mackmurdo's influence in Europe is recognized as having produced the earliest examples of Art Nouveau, particularly in the styling of a chair-back designed in 1882 and the title page for Wren's City Churches a year later. The present chair was designed for the head of Rainhill hospital St Helen's south Lancashire/Merseyside (now demolished), an institute for the mentally ill, as part of an interior scheme for his study. It was almost certainly designed and made only for this interior, unlike the earlier chair which was designed in 1882 and made and sold until 1888. It was originally thought this interior was designed by the Liverpool architect Edmund Rathbone whose brother, Harold Rathbone, founded the Della Robbia Pottery factory in 1894. A picture is shown in Jeremy Cooper's Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, p. 199, illus. 516, from the Bedford Lemere archive at the National Monuments Record, apparently credited as 'Rainhill, Edmund Rathbone'. But Edmund Rathbone was actually the Century Guild...

Joseph Maria Olbrich was an Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders.

Decorative Art Nouveau Oak Armchair From the 20th Century An Art Nouveau-style armchair with characteristic decorations on the upper part of...

A French Art Deco chair with comfortable, removable backs and seats for easy upholstery in the style of Jules Leleu. Needs a final lining. We also have more units of this piece a...

A very elegant dining room chairs in white vinyl and polished wood finish. We also have one more units of this piece available. Please check our listings.

Early 20th century French Art Nouveau carved mahogany chair with leatherette tobacco color seat with springs. Restored and polished to wax. Precious chair also for a modern desk. P...