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1970's Bentwood White Painted Beech Bentwood Dining Chairs - Pair. 1970's Bentwood White Painted Beech Bentwood Dining Chairs - Pair. Sourced in France these are late production cha...

This fine quality and very handsome handmade English leather wing armchair features a ball and claw leg in the 18th century style. It has a butto...

This is a classic English walnut chair from the Queen Anne period with a beautiful mellow color and dating to circa 1700-1710. This is a very good example of this classic antique de...

Pair of large 19th Century French walnut armchairs in the Regence style. Beautifully shaped armrests and legs with lovely floral and foliate carving. These stunning fauteuils have be...

A stunning pair of vintage French iron and leather armchairs, dating from around the 1960’s. This model is often attributed to Jacques Adnet, they are of superb quality and is extre...

A Pair of early 20th Century Chinese Elm Yoke Back Officials Hat Chairs These elegantly crafted chairs feature a graceful, harmonious design rooted in the classic aesthetics of tradi...

Introducing the Flexform Long Island L shaped sofa, a luxurious addition to any living space. Crafted with the highest quality materials and expert craftsmanship, this sofa exudes el...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, hand carved, flamed Mahogany, throne style armchair as seen in Lord Marchs Goodwoo...

The ‘Samurai’ lounge chair was designed by Italian Luciano Frigerio in the 1960s. The combination of the cherrywood frame, soft black leather, tan leather belts and unusual square bu...

A very good quality mid-19th century mahogany stool, of diminutive proportions, having attractive needlework drop in seat to frame with elegant carved decoration, raised on cabriole ...

Outstanding quality antique Edwardian mahogany inlaid desk chair, having an outstanding quality mahogany inlaid shaped back with a carved splat to the centre shaped open arms, newly ...

Elevate your dining experience with the Caratos Dining Chair by Maxalto. Crafted with high quality materials and impeccable attention to detail, this chair exudes luxury and sophisti...

Set of 19 Beech Wheel Back Windsor Kitchen Dining Chairs The chairs are a classic design and traditionally made, they have hooped backs with a wedge in the traditional Windsor style...

Dagmar - Luupo Round Ottoman The Luupo Ottoman offers a versatile and sophisticated seating option for any modern interior. The round, inviting form sit...

Antiques of London A beautifully crafted, large Chesterfield footstool upholstered in rich, hand-dyed brown leather. The generous proportions, deep buttoning, and classic tufted d...

An elegant pair of painted open armchairs from the early 19th century English Regency era, exquisitely hand-painted to simulate exotic timber and decorated with neoclassical festive ...

A pair of fine carved teak garden or hall benches in the manner of William Kent. Panelled backs and seats with scallop shell crests above Vitruvian scroll frieze, acanthus scroll arm...

A pair of original Geoffrey Harcourt swivel lounge chairs. Design F506 for Artifort - Circa 1985. The chairs have been re-covered in a beautiful, durable polyester boucle fabric fro...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, exceptionally rare, fully restored, Tim Bates for Pieff Mandarin...

Walter Skull High Wycombe. An Arts and Crafts oak wing back upholstered armchair with lovely show oak to the outer wing sides. The wings curve out and fol...

Gallery bench in solid cross-grain English walnut. – solid laminated English walnut. – Finished with a protective coating of hard wax oil. – My initials and making number can be f...

Dagmar Design - Model 54 lounge chair The Model 54 Chair is from our custom-made upholstered range. This piece has been developed and hand-made at our ...

An imposing pair of Louis Philippe Fauteuils Constructed in Honduras Mahogany, standing on swept lappeted gentle 'S' shaped legs to the fro...

We are delighted to offer for sale this gorgeous fully restored oak frame chesterfield cigar brown leather captain armchair. This piece combines style and...

Hardy wingback chair by Dare Studio, 2011. Dimensions: H 125 x D 85 x W 76 cm. Materials: American black walnut legs, muirhead jade leather. Also available in European white oak...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques are delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, highly collectable, extra large Throne armchair dated 1615 to the top with a larg...

Low footstool on reeded legs in aged paint finish. Circa 1890. H 21cm x W 47cm x D 58cm

This mahogany wheel chair has a padded back, arms and seat, reupholstered in deep buttoned blue leather. The brass-bound wheels have a secondary outer wheel, and a pair of smaller b...

Introducing the ultimate in luxury and style - the Scenario Sectional Sofa by Roche Bobois. This stunning piece features a sleek and modern design, with plush cushions and a spacious...

Absolutely unique Regency style arm chair library step combo - a metamorphic chair Wow - have you seen any thing like this? Great space saving piece with double purpose Perfect for t...

This is the wide version of the original Sunday Daybed, this model measures 112 cm in width/depth, offering a more spacious lounging surface compared to the original 70 cm version. ...

A beautifully designed 'faux bois' cast iron garden bench. c.1890 Designed to imitate the branches of a tree in the form of a bench but cast out of iron. Original white paint with...

E A Taylor attributed. A good Arts & Crafts oak tub chair with a single pierced teardrop cut-out to the back support and shaped supports beneath the arms...

A stunning pair of Danish leather Capella sofas by Illum Wikkelso. They were made in Denmark in the 1960’s. The quality is outstanding, the frames are beautifully constructed and ha...

Set of 6 Queen Anne style cherry dining chairs These chairs are raised upon cabriole legs with pad feet These chairs feature a typical Queen Anne shaped back splat and have stuff ove...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite original fully restored hand dyed brown leather Chesterfield library armchair from the George III era circa 1780 A fantastic look...

Large pair of original painted French fauteuils. 1880. Seat height: 15-inches Code: 9028 Dimensions: W: 24" (61 cm) H: 38" (96.5 cm) D: 22" (55.9 cm)

Wimbledon-Furniture is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of exceptionally heavy Victorian wingback armchairs restored with Heritage brown leather upholstery These are...

French, Louis XVI Style sofa with scroll arms, hand carved by La Maison London. This piece has been finished in house, in an ecru white with hand gilded highlights. The seating, bols...

Liberty & Co attributed made by William Birch. An English Arts & Crafts shaped ladder back armchair with ball finials to the back and to the front of the arms with turned supports b...

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 ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this important, handmade made in England, circa 1860-1880 Victorian ornately hand carved English Oak Cockfig...

A Georgian black leather-upholstered wingback armchair outlined with a close nail trim and raised on cabriole legs terminating in scrolled feet.

Otto Wagner for Jacob and Josef Kohn Secessionist Movement Stained Bentwood Chair, with Pierced Vase Splat & Branded Stamp to Chair Underside Made in Vienna Austria Jacob & Josef Ko...

An original, early pair of Ignazio Gardella Reclining Digamma chairs, designed in the late 1950s and produced by Gavina, Italy in the 1960s. Newly reupholstered in yellow / gold velv...

Early substantial deep seated Howard and sons chaise sofa covered in H&S blue ticking standing on English walnut turned legs and original gilt castors. French Empire shape perfected ...

Antique French 19th Century bench /Long Ottoman C.1820 Constructed in the Louis XIV style, from walnut with an upholstered seat. Standing ...

Walter Cave, made by R Nash. A rare Arts and Crafts exhibition style oak settee or settle with Voysey style uprights to the front with carved flower head...

This spectacular 19th Century hand carved oriental hall bench, with wonderful classical chrysanthemums, scrolling foliage, and mythical dragons. Batch 75 62029.

W R Lethaby. A Rare Arts & Crafts Sculptured oak armchair with shaped arms, shaped head rest and lower stretchers united by large plank uprights. Lethaby was one of the most influent...

An English 18th-century carved mahogany library armchair - or bergère - of good rich colour. George III, circa 1780. This antique Sheraton-period armchair, sometimes described as a bergère (bergere) chair, is raised on reeded square tapering legs which merge, headed by a carved rosette panel...

A Pair of Regency Mahogany Armchairs after Thomas Hope These exceptional armchairs represent one of the most sophisticated expressions of English Regency design. Constructed in rich...

1950’s Original English Pavilion Lime Green Folding Chairs. We sourced these from a dusty community hall in Nottinghamshire where they had been stored for many years, having been r...

Anglo-Indian Rajasthani Mother of pearl upholstered stool ottoman A stunning example. In very good condition commensurate with age. Two s...

Royal House Antiques We are delighted to offer this important suite of museum quality, antique Colonial Rosewood Thomas Chippendale, fret work carved dining chairs Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide and covers London only for the UK and local Europe for the rest of the world, if you are outside of this area please send me your address and I will provide you with an accurate quote Where to begin, if you’re looking at this listing then the chances are you know exactly how significant this suite is, Thomas Chippendale was simply put, the most important furniture designer in history, these chairs are the only Colonial examples I have ever seen and in Rosewood no less, they weigh roughly three times more than a standard dining chair of the same style and size, they are very substantial The chairs are late 19th century circa 1880-1900, they are of course based on the original 18th century examples, the carving is exquisitely executed and the chairs look sophisticated and elegant from all angles The suite has been sympathetically restored to include a deep clean, hand condition wax and hand polish, the seat covers have been left as they are, they are ok, I can have them reupholstered for the cost price to anything the new owners wish Literature Two chairs illustrated in Tabellenbuch Holztechnik, Hamburg, 2013, p. 271. Exhibited Ten chairs on loan to Birmingham Museums circa 1985-2010 and exhibited at Aston Hall, Birmingham, where photographed in situ.. Dimensions Height:- 93cm Width:- 56cm Depth:- 53cm Seat height:- 47cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point. Lot Essay These chairs are closely related to those in two recognised Chippendale commissions: Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet for Normanton Hall, Rutland and William Crichton-Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries (4th Earl of Stair, 1699-1768) for Dumfries House, Ayrshire. THE RELATED CHAIRS The chairs are of identical decoration to the set of two armchairs and ten single chairs, circa 1765, formerly at Normanton Hall (1). In 1759, Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet, succeeded to the vast inheritance established by his grandfather, also Gilbert, 1st Baronet (1652-1733), who was reputed to be ‘the richest commoner in England’ (2). The 3rd Baronet employed both Chippendale Senior and his son, Chippendale Junior, in the furnishing of his Palladian mansion, Normanton Hall in Rutland, and his London houses, 29 Grosvenor Square, London and Browne's House at North End, Fulham. Surviving Chippendale accounts, although incomplete, show that the firm was working periodically for members of the Heathcote family from 1768 to 1821. Most of the furniture listed in these accounts was intended for Browne’s House, although after 1798 when the family relinquished this residence some of the furniture was moved to Normanton Hall. The latter was sold in 1924, and any furniture not included in the Normanton Hall sale was taken to the Earl of Ancaster’s seat at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. Chippendale’s earliest invoice for Sir Gilbert Heathcote records the acquisition in 1768 of ‘6 India Back and arm chairs Japand to imitate the Bamboe’, signifying how the family embraced the highly fashionable chinoiserie taste. Although the Normanton chairs cannot be conclusively identified in the extant Chippendale accounts, their form and ornamentation led Christopher Gilbert to suggest that they were possibly by Chippendale (3). The set of four mahogany chairs at Dumfries House have nearly-identical pagoda-form cresting rails and identical terminals but differ in the arrangement of the 'Chinese' paling in the backs and side panels. Although no documentary evidence for the Dumfries chairs survives, in their execution and sophisticated carving of the toprails, they are extremely close to Chippendale’s hand. Another near-set of closely related chairs is at Saltram House, Devon, where Chippendale worked between 1771-2; these dates are based on payments in John Parker's cash account book, and probably do not reflect a true picture of the entire commission as Parker often paid tradesmen by banker's draft (4). Comprising two armchairs and seven single chairs, this set, circa 1765, is made of padouk, and has been described by the National Trust as ‘Chinese Export’ (5). The set was returned to Saltram in 1951 having been accepted by H.M. Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951). Some of the chairs are currently on display in ‘The Chinese Chippendale Bedroom’. A further set of four padouk chairs of the Saltram pattern was almost certainly at Kenwood House, London; some of these are recorded in 18th century inventories drawn up by Lord Mansfield. This set was removed to Scone Palace, Perth, prior to the auction at Kenwood in 1922, and subsequently sold from ‘Scone Palace and Blairquhan: The Selected Contents of Two Great Scottish Houses’, Christie’s, London, 24 May 2007, lot 298. Another pair of padouk chairs of this model sold ‘The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller’, Christie’s, New York, 10 May 2018, lot 647 ($193,750 inc. premium). THE DESIGN Conceived in the Chinese manner expounded by William and John Halfpenny in Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste (1752), and Sir William Chambers in his Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils (1757), the pattern for this set of ‘Pagoda’ chairs relates to nine designs for ‘Chinese Chairs’ in the 1st edition of Chippendale’s Director (1754); the cabinet-maker describes these designs thus: Plates XXIII, XXIV and XXV are nine Chairs in the present Chinese manner, which I hope will improve that taste, or manner of work; it having yet never arrived to any perfection; doubtless it might be lost without feeling its beauty: as it admits of the greatest variety, I think it the most useful of any other. The sizes are all specified on the designs. The three last (No. XXV.) I hope will be well received, as there has been none like them yet made. The Georgian period witnessed the proliferation of such railed and pagoda-crested chairs in both the ‘picturesque’ Chinese tea pavilions of landscaped parks as well as in fashionable apartments hung with ‘India’ paper. The geometric ‘Chinese’ feet of these chairs are also found on a set of pedestals...

Antique English Jacobean style carved oak joint bench stool circa 1920 A good size piece. Of good solid construction. Expected signs of wear to plank top, commensurate of age, ol...

The Kudu Dining Chair draws its elegant poise and geometry from the majestic king of antelopes. Crafted from solid oak with a black stain, the legs are shaped with precision and fini...

An extraordinary, rare pair of Italian 1950s armchairs. Structurally sound, but the original upholstery is worn out so the chairs are sold for the customer to recover in their own c...

A handsome, generously proportioned George III wood-framed wingback chair, England, 19th Century. Newly upholstered in a premium pure Alpaca wool. ...

An unusual French Empire mahogany reclining wing back armchair of high proportions. French, Circa 1820. Of elegant proportions, having an un...