Antiques Associations Members Stools

A pair of vernacular chestnut stools, circa 1830. Provenance: from a non-conformist chapel in the West Midlands built in 1832.

A very good quality 19th century Chinese hardwood garden seat, having an inset marble-top, mother of pearl inlay, carved and fretted trel...

A FINE PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY STOOLS, CIRCA 1815. Each with a fitted squab cushion (not shown).

Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the École Boule, graduating in 1934. After the Second World War he moved to Lille, in the north of France, where he decorated homes and designed furniture for the well regarded Rogier workshops. In 1948 Jacques Chambron left his work as a painter and decorator on the Rue Nollet in Paris, and relocated his family to join Guillerme. The two had met in 1940 while imprisoned by the Germans in East Prussia and bonded over, among other more obvious things, their shared passion for design. In 1949 the pair discovered Émile Dariosecq, a master cabinet maker who had a shop in the city, and who was willing to produce their designs. The three started Votre Maison. The association was destined to be as influential as prolific. Not only did Votre Maison produce over two thousand models during the later half of the twentieth century, it also left an indelible stamp on design of the 50s, 60s and 70s. The company’s output served as a model for a vast field of livable contemporaneous design. The soul of Guillerme et Chambron’s work was in the company’s name (“Your House"). Their focus was as keenly attuned to functionality—furniture’s use in daily life—as to the creation of innovative design. For the pair of designers the home was envisioned as a place where the family could live both comfortably and in aesthetic harmony. Robert Guillerme, who designed most of the work, possessed a limitless creative ambition, producing designs for everything from grand dressers and sideboards to the smallest elements of a space, such as pedestals, shelving, benches, and lighting. This steady output of beautiful furniture bucked convention not merely in the equal emphasis Guillerme placed on function and aesthetics, but in the almost paradoxical creation...

A very good quality late 19th Century Carved gilt wood Cabriole leg stool, with classical tapestry fabric.

This beautiful antique stool is a classic example of Empire period design: with elegant curved armrests which are designed to look like swans' necks, the seat features skilfully-cast...

A good pair of late 18th century Sheraton period mahogany saddle seat stools or window seats with scrolled ends and moulded legs.

A wonderfully stylish 19th century Oriental style stool, with pierced fretwork decoration to the frieze, stuff over upholstered seat, raised on classical carved cabriole legs with my...

A finely carved and faux Sienna marble mahogany stool after Charles Heathcote Tatham. Of good weight and solid construction. The design is derived from C. H. Tatham's Etchings Repre...

A late Victorian mahogany leathered box stool or Ottoman, of rectangular form, re-upholstered overall in distressed burgundy leather, the hinged lid deep-buttoned to form a seat, the...

A pair of Victorian carved mahogany stools, each of square form with a pierced frieze and raised on scrolling cabriole legs, the drop-in seats upholstered in woven horsehair. English...

Pair of Karl Johann stools.

A pair of unusual 19th century upholstered mahogany benches.

Square padded mahogany stool on cabriole legs with a rosette on knee ending in hairy paw feet.

Round polished-oak and red leather stools by French designer Charles Dudouyt.