Carved Oak Barley Twist Arm Chairs

The impressive oak hall chairs with tall backs and carved crest rails with confronting griffins with scrolled leafy tails flanking an artichoke finial and with masks on the ends. The...

Pair oak barley twist arm chairs in good condition. The chairs have carved leaves to the top and centre of the backs, each side has barley twist colum...

An English armchair beautifully carved with barley twist supports and bobbin turned legs from the early 20th century. Finished with a cane seat and backrest. The beech wood chair and...

"Late Victorian Hunzinger Arm Chair. Made from Mahogany with a barley twisted frame featuring spindled accents, tapestry seat and back as well as ball and claw feet. George Jacob Hunzinger (1835 – 1898) George Hunzinger (1835-1898) was one of only a few furniture makers in the Victorian era whose designs were not derived from historical styles or fashion, but rather from an emerging vision of the modern era, with forms reflecting functional, mechanical influences which would characterize American design in the century to come. George Hunzinger was born in Germany in 1835 to a family which had been cabinetmakers since the 17th century. He emigrated to New York at the age of 20, already trained as a furniture maker; one of many German cabinetmakers, including the Herter Brothers, who came to the United States to flee the political and economic turmoil in Germany after 1848. Hunzinger came to a country preoccupied with the latest technology and inventions, where new machines and labor saving devices were patented daily. He was a prolific inventor himself, and became a leader in the ""patent furniture"" industry. From 1860 to his death in 1898, he was awarded 21 patents for furniture inventions, including extension tables, swivel top and nesting tables, reclining and folding chairs, convertible beds...

A beautiful and solid turned walnut Jacobean Barley Twist Armchair by Kittinger Furniture Compan, circa 1890 having fresh tweed cotton/poly blend...

Stunning 19th century English Jacobean armchair. Chairs feature ornate spiral carved barley twist in oak. lower stretcher, intricate carved back and urn form finials. Very impressive...