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OCCASIONAL CHAIRS & STOOLS
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s5777 A pair of high, ash, ladderback chairs with rush seats of unusually wide proportions designed by Philip Clissett probably made by Edward Gardiner. This design was used by C R Mackintosh for a house for the Gauld family in 1893. These examples show evidene of having been painted white. See Gimson catalogue, Leicester Museum and C R Mackintosh by Roger Billcliffe, 116cm (45.5in) high, 56cm (22in) wide. Illustrated: a version by Norman & Stacey |
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s5632 A fine oak Cotswold stool with chamfered and shaped stretcher and through tenon construction, attributed to Gordon Russell, circa 1925, 37cm (14.5in) high. |
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srbt600 A rare and fine walnut Cotswold armchair with chamfered lattice back, exposed tenon construction and with original rush seat, after a design by Ernest Gimson, made by Fred Gardiner, stamped 'F P Gardiner Oakbridge'. Gardiner (1890-1963) worked for Gimson and then Peter Waals workshop. 87cm (38in) high. |
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srml101 A pair of oak Glasgow highback side chairs, circa 1900,107cm (42in) high.
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s5664 An ash Clissett lowback armchair designed by Edward Gimson, re-rushed, circa 1925, 87cm (34.5in) high
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s4593 An oak Letchworth bedroom ladder-back chair with rush seat, circa 1905, 91cm (35.75in) high.
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s5639 An oak footstool with Celtic and entrellac carved columns and with ebony dowels and inlay and leather drop-in seat, attributed to Simpsons of Kendal, circa 1910, 30.5cm (12in) high, 36cm (14in) wide, 28cm (11in) deep.
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s5292 An ebonised ‘Sussex’ armchair designed by Ford Maddox Brown, made by Morris & Co, re-rushed, circa 1875.
89cm (35in) high.
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s5308 A pair of ebonised Sussex armchairs designed by D G Rosetti, made by Morris & Co, with original rush seats, circa 1875. These chairs have the original distressed buttoned velvet covered horsehair squab cushions. The survival of fine original rush on Morris chairs depends on whether or not squab cushions have been used. It is rare to find the original squab cushions.
86cm (34in) high.
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s5372b An ebonised ‘Sussex’ armchair with original rush seat,
designed by Philip Webb for Morris & Co, circa 1875. 86cm (34in)
high.
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s5372bpr A pair of ebonised ‘Sussex’ armchairs with original rush seats, designed by Philip Webb for Morris & Co, circa 1875. 86cm (34in) high.
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s5447 A Liberty’s ‘Athelstan’ armchair in oak with splay arms and drop in original rush seat, circa 1900, illustrated in Liberty’s catalogue 1899. 211cm (83in) high, 114cm (45in) wide, 53cm (21in) deep. |
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s5361 n imposing oak and ebony inlaid barrel chair with slatted sides and shaped top rail, the outside slats inlaid with stylised long-stemmed flower, the inside and front edge similarly inlaid but also with a geometric motif, attributed to Baillie Scott, circa 1900. 103cm (40.5in) high. .The drop-in upholstered seat has been renewed. The scale of this chair is unusually large. A similar chair appears in Pyghtle Works catalogue as well as in The Studio 1898, for the Grand Duke of Hesse’s Palace in Darmstadt. Baillie Scott designed barrel chairs for various houses in Germany and Switzerland. See M H Baillie Scott and the Arts & Crafts Movement by J D Kornwolf p. 166. The barrel chair form is based on a design by Edward Burne Jones for the William Morris tapestry of ‘Arthur and the Holy Grail’ of 1896 of which Baillie Scott was aware. C R Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft made the furniture for Baillie Scott’s commissions of this period as well as for the Grand Duke’s Palace, see The Houses and Gardens of M H Baillie Scott by Ian Macdonald-Smith, p90. Attributed maker The Guild of Handicraft.
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5 s5313 An Arts & Crafts oak spinning chair with heart cutout and carved floral panel to the back, circa 1900.
104cm (41in) high, 33cm (13in) seat diameter
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s2406 A decorated and gilt Moorish armchair, with musharabiyeh turnings, attributed to Liberty, circa 1895, the original white paint has been over painted in blue but the gilding is original.. 115cm (45in) high, 59cm (23in) wide. |
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s3205 A pair of oak Arts & Crafts armchairs, upholstered in William Morris fabric, circa 1900. 99cm (39in) high |
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srfjn04 A pair of oak 'House of Commons' chairs designed by A W N Pugin, circa 1850. 89cm (35in) high. |
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s3358 An ash ‘Pass’ ladderback side chair with four shaped splats first designed by Ernest Gimson in 1907, early 20th Century. From the collection of Roderick Gradidge. 101cm (40in) high.
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s5401 An ash Cotswold fireside armchair with five shaped and chamfered horizontal slats to the back, wide arms and rush seat in the manner of Gimson, circa 1920. 118cm (46.5in) high.
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s5133 An oak Thebes stool with slatted top, attributed to Liberty, circa
189037cm .(14.5in) high 43 (17in) square top
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S5009a A green decorated chair with gilded leaf design to back & stretcher and rush seat, attributed to William Burges and his studio and probably made by J S Chapple, circa 1875, much of the furniture in Castel Coch has similar green decoration. Examples of this chair have appeared stamped Walden who also worked for Burges. Similar
illustrated on p34 ‘Truth, Beauty & Design’ by Adrian Tilbrook & Fischer Fine Art Ltd. An upholstered version is shown in a photograph of Burges’ own bedroom at Tower House see p75
‘Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors’ by J Cooper. 35ins
(89cms) high..
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A collection of stools by Simpsons of Kendal S4894 An oak easy stool with re-leathered plaited seat, circa 1920, labelled Arthur Simpson. 30cm (12in) high. Sold
S4972 An oak easy stool on chamfered tapering legs with S4941 An oak easy stool on tapering legs with original plaited leather seat, circa 1920, stamped 8601 Reg. 695391. 30cm (12in) high. S4893 An oak easy stool on tapering, chamfered legs with shaped brackets and plaited leather seat, circa 1920. 30cm (12in) high. S3413 A high oak easy stool with double stretchers and tooled, studded hide seat, circa 1930. 61cm (24in) high, 52cm (20.5in) wide 34cm (13.5in) deep.
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S2219 An American oak Arts & Crafts stool,
circa 1920, 15in (38cm) high, 17in (42cm) wide.
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S3953 A mahogany inlaid piano stool, circa 1900, 27.5in (77cm) high, 23in (58cm) wide 14in (36cm) deep. |
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S3979 A stained beech 'Thebes' stool,
attributed to Liberty & Co, circa 1895, 15in (38cm) high, 14.5in (35cm) wide.
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wsr467 An oak Secessionist piano stool in the manner of Otto Wagner, circa 1905, 27.5in
(70cm) hih, 23.5in (60cm) wide.
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s3647 An ash ‘Clisset Highback’ armchair painted black with gold decoration and initialed CSK dated 1896 with original rush seat, designed by Ernest Gimson. Illustrated page 62 ‘Ernest Gimson & the Cotswold Group of Craftsmen’ by Annette Carruthers.
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SR586AO A pair of oak high back Arts & Crafts chairs with shaped and domed finial in the manner of Walter Cave, circa 1900 |
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