Spanish Hand-Crafted Olive Wood Rush Seating Low Dining/Children’s Chair

This stunning Spanish Olive wood dining chair features rush seating and classical ladder back support, with exceptionally smooth curves and fine marbled wood grain. Olive Wood is an ...

One of the most elegant features of these beautiful hand-crafted Italian chairs, is their carved Lyre Back design. They feature a polished Italian walnut frame and rush seating, comp...

This pair of children’s chairs has a back frame in the Southern Official hat style. The seat is made of a solid plank of wood. The aprons are do...

A Dutch-colonial Indonesian small Albizia adoratissima, Nangka and Ambalo wood Lady’s tambour bureau with silver mounts Batavia (Jakarta) or Palembang, late 18th century H. 129.5 x W. 70 x D. 39 cm The tambour desk or bureau a` cilindre came into fashion in the Dutch East Indies of the late 18th century, when French forms prevailed in the Netherlands. The carvings on the apron and the stiles on the sides and at the top of the central stile are typical Indonesian designs. This small piece of furniture is not a miniature but was probably used as a regular bureau-cabinet by colonial society women of Indonesian-European descent. They usually are smaller than European women and often didn’t use chairs but sat or kneeled, and even slept on the floor for coolness. Earlier that century Dutch-colonial Indonesian and Cape Dutch...