CHAIRS: HALL AND PORTER’S
18thC mahogany hall chair - Regency hall chair with sabre legs - oak and mahogany hall chairs
Distinctive 18thC mahogany hall chair with a carved shell back.
18th and 19th century antique hall chairs designed to stand in the hall (also corridors and landings) of large houses. Used by servants and visitors of low [...]

CHAIRS — hall and porters
Though grouped for convenience they are in fact complete opposites. The hall chair offers a rock-like resistance to the posterior and the back no comfort. It is almost as though they were designed to impress on those made to wait, the fact they were being made to do so. They were [...]