Posts Tagged ‘Dining Chairs’

A Mahogany Sheraton Style Single Chair - Country Sheraton Design Armchair - Chair of the Early Regency Period

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

A Mahogany Sheraton Style Single Chair - Country Sheraton Design Armchair  -  Chair of the Early Regency Period
A Sheraton design chair of considerable workmanship. Many such chairs are to be found painted in white and gilt or otherwise having painted decoration on birch or beech wood. In the main the painted versions are
more highly sought [...]

Dining Walnut and Mahogany Chairs, Regency, Victorian and George III Elbow Armchairs

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Antique Dining Walnut and Mahogany Chairs, Regency, Victorian and George III Elbow Armchairs
A SET OF SIX WALNUT DINING CHAIRS, mid 18th century
Each with a pierced vase split and drop-in seat, on cabriole legs terminating in trifid feet.
A SET OF EIGHT EBONISED AND DECORATED ELBOW CHAIR
Each silver-painted with floral sprays and interlaced ovals with lozenges, [...]

Chippendale Chairs

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

ANTIQUE CHAIRS: CHIPPENDALE
Thomas Chippendale - rococo chairs, chinoiserie and Gothic chairs - Queen Anne chairs - mid-18thC chairs - Chippendale chairs reproductions
Chippendale chairs were originally produced in 1750-1780 by Thomas Chippendale.
Thomas Chippendale’s Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director, published in three editions (1754, 1755 and 1762) had a historic influence on mid-18thC chair design. In it, [...]

Antique 17th Century English Chairs: Back-Stools, Caned and Farthingales

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

CHAIRS: BACK-STOOLS, FARTHINGALES, CANED AND OTHER 17THC SEATS
About 1615-1700
Typical upholstered farthingale chair.
The 17thC saw the widespread introduction of the single chair, referred to at the time as a `back-stool’, literally a stool with a back. Fixed upholstery sometimes replaced loose cushions and after 1660 woven canework introduced from the East Indies  was fashionably seen on [...]

Oak Dining Chairs

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

CHAIRS — antique oak dining chairs, English

walnut dining chair - oak dining chairs - Carolean dining chair - Yorkshire/Derbyshire oak dining chair - 17th century oak chairs - cabriole leg black wooden wooden chairs
By the mid-seventeenth century single antique oak dining chairs instead of carved wood chair dining table upholstered came into vogue for diners [...]