Vintage Harrods Dining Table 20th Century and 12 Dining Chairs, 19th Century

$10,298.55List Priceper set

About the Item

This is a fabulous high quality dining set comprising a satin birch twin pillar oval dining table purchased at great expense from Harrods, Knightsbridge, London in the 1980s and a set of twelve antique Victorian dining chairs. The oval top with inlaid circular satinwood and ebonized shell marquetry decoration at each end, with two additional leaves, that can be added or removed a required to suit the occasion, it can comfortably seat twelve people. It is raised on a pair of incurved triform bases with scroll supports on ball feet. The set of twelve antique English Victorian spoon back dining chairs date from circa 1870. The set comprises twelve side chairs all masterfully crafted in beautiful solid mahogany. They each have elegant spoon backs and are raised on stylish hand carved turned tapering legs, with stuff over removable drop in seats that have been reupholstered in a sumptuous cream fabric. There is no mistaking the Fine craftsmanship of this handsome dining set which is certain to become a treasured addition to your furniture collection, and a talking point with guests at meal times. Condition: In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned and waxed and the chairs reupholstered in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 75 x width 317 x depth 122, fully extended Height 75 x width 204 x depth 122, with both leaves removed Height 86 x width 46 x depth 52, chairs Height 47, seat height Dimensions in inches: Height 29.5 x width 124.8 x depth 48.0, fully extended Height 29.5 x width 80.3 x depth 48.0, with both leaves removed Height 33.9 x width 18.1 x depth 20.5, chairs Height 18.5, seat height Harrods founder Charles Henry Harrod first established his business in 1824, aged 25. The business was located south of the River Thames in Southwark. The premises were located at 228 Borough High Street. He ran this business, variously listed as a draper, mercer and a haberdasher, certainly until 1831. During 1825 the business was listed as 'Harrod and Wicking, Linen Drapers, Retail', but this partnership was dissolved at the end of that year. His first grocery business appears to be as ‘Harrod Co.Grocers’ at 163 Upper Whitecross Street, Clerkenwell, E.C.1., in 1832. In 1834 in London's East End, he established a wholesale grocery in Stepney, at 4, Cable Street, with a special interest in tea. In 1849, to escape the vice of the inner city and to capitalize on trade to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in nearby Hyde Park, Harrod took over a small shop in the district of Brompton, on the site of the current store. Beginning in a single room employing two assistants and a messenger boy, Harrod's son Charles Digby Harrod built the business into a thriving retail operation selling medicines, perfumes, stationery, fruit and vegetables. Harrods rapidly expanded, acquired the adjoining buildings, and employed one hundred people by 1880. However, the store's booming fortunes were reversed in early December 1883, when it burnt to the ground. Remarkably, in view of this calamity, Charles Harrod fulfilled all of his commitments to his customers to make Christmas deliveries that year, and made a record profit in the process. In short order, a new building was built on the same site, and soon Harrods extended credit for the first time to its best customers, among them Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry, Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Sigmund Freud, A. A. Milne, and many members of the British Royal Family. On Wednesday, 16 November 1898, Harrods debuted England's first "moving staircase" (escalator) in their Brompton Road stores; the device was actually a woven leather conveyor belt-like unit with a mahogany and "silver plate-glass" balustrade. Nervous customers were offered brandy at the top to Revive them after their 'ordeal'. The department store was purchased by the Fayed brothers in 1985. In 2010 Harrods was sold to Qutar Holdings. Harrods was the holder of royal warrants from 1910 till 2000 from the following: * Queen Elizabeth II (Provisions and Household Goods) * The Duke of Edinburgh (Outfitters) * The Prince of Wales (Outfitters and Saddlers) * The late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (China and Glass) The store occupies a 5-ACRE (20,000 m2) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m2) of selling space in over 330 departments making it the biggest department store in Europe. The UK's second-biggest shop, Selfridges, Oxford Street, is a little over half the size with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m2) of selling space, while the third largest, Allders of Croydon had 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) of retail space. By comparison Europe's second-largest department store the KaDeWe in Berlin has a retail space of 650,000 square feet (60,000 m2). Satin birch is a fine grained and light colored hardwood often used in Victorian pieces of antique furniture. When Victorian cabinet makers used to cut birch on an angle this made a very unusual grain and this grain was known as tiger or zebra stripes, this is how satin birch got its name.

Dimensions:
Height: 29.53 in (75 cm)Width: 80.32 in (204 cm)Depth: 48.04 in (122 cm)Seat Height: 18.51 in (47 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 13
Materials and Techniques:
Birch,Mahogany
Place of Origin:
England
Period:
1980-1989
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1980
Condition:
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: A1592a1stDibs: LU950621997762

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