Unusual Pair of Industrial Slatted Folding Metal Armchairs

Set of four Royal metal chairs with vinyl upholstery, metal frames, and walnut armrests. Please confirm item location (NY or NJ) with dealer.

This pair of midcentury Italian "Z" chairs feature beautiful bentwood arms and tufted upholstery which offers their unique style to any room. Please confirm item location (NY or N...

Wild pair of metal armchairs with wicker seats. Great for indoor or outdoor use. Please confirm location.  

This pair of incredible unique Lucite chairs feature a curved design with plush upholstery. Each chair is constructed from a single piece of Lucite creating an incredibly durable as ...

This comfortable pair of midcentury lounge chairs features unique design including wonderful toothpick style tapered frame. The elaborate plush blue upholstery and vintage walnut fin...

Stunning pair of Mid-Century Modern armchairs. Seats and backs are covered in a vintage faux-leather upholstery. Stylishly contoured frame. Please confirm item location with dealer (...

Pair of sculptural origami folded metal end tables, France, circa 1970s. They are constructed of silver enameled metal. The tabletop of each removes to reveal a hidden storage area. ...

Pair of Chippendale style carved and black lacquered wood armchairs standing on two back saber legs and two front claw and ball legs, characteristic of the Chippendale style. Rectang...

1900s Italy budoir, pair of bedroom armchairs Art Nouveau with stool in hand-carved walnut, restored and polished to wax. Made new upholstery...

Very rare rationalist children's armchair designed by BBPR, fine Italian manufacture. Example of similar armchair published in Domus. This small armchair has a base of fine wood, with a round, beautifully striped footstool...

Antique Victorian Child's armchair. A late 19th, early 20th century arm chair for a child. The easy chair raised on square tapering legs and newly covered in traditional calico upholstery ready for a new fabric top covering. The easy chair is a comfortable chair in a good clean condition. A wonderful chair with unusual design for a child or even a wonderful dogs or cats bed.

Frank Brangwyn. An important armchair. Brangwyn's last interior designs were for the Canadian Pacific Liner; 'The SS Empress of Britain', which was launched in 1931 by the Prince of Wales, later to be King Edward VIII who renounced his throne to marry Wallis Simpson in 1930. These armchairs were designed for the 1st class dining room; 'The Salle Jacque Cartier' (see last image) and they were made by H.H. Martyn and Co. Cheltenham. The 1st class dining room was described in the Bulletin of The Decorative Arts Society 1890-1940 as 'In the fully fledge modern restaurant and cinema style of the 1930s'. The Studio in a long article on the liner, discusses and illustrates Brangwyn's Salle Jacques Cartier: 'So architectural it is, so true proportion, so devoid of Extraneous ornament. In contrast to this austerity of line, hue and colour, his great wall paintings are rich in colour; composed in the bold, yet intricate pattern of figure, fruit and flowers that characterizes Mr Brangwyn's decorative works'. Tragically the liner was sunk in 1940 by a U-boat. Brangwyn also designed marquetry panels for the private dining rooms and they were executed by the Rowley Gallery, he also designed a frieze carved in wood for their gallery façade in 1936. The armchair has a central under bar below the seat which still has the original bolt and eye to secure the chain to and then to the floor, that would prevent all the chairs from sliding around in stormy weather. It is lacking ivorene numbered disc which would have sat in the very top of the head rail. In October 1940 the most famous of the Canadian Pacific Railway liners and flagship of the company's Atlantic Fleet, the Empress of Britain, was attacked and sunk. She was travelling to Glasgow from Suez via South Africa, where she was bombed near the north-west coast of Ireland by a German Focke Wulf Condor plane. When the Condor attacked the Empress of Britain the ship's crew couldn't shoot the plane down and soon the Empress was burning out of control and the Captain C.H. Sapsworth gave the order to abandon ship. 45 people died and the remaining survivors including women and children, were later rescued that day by the British destroyer HMS Echo and the Polish destroyer Burza and 3 British naval trawlers Paynter, Cape Agona and Drangey. The Empress still burning managed to stay afloat and the day after 2 Royal Navy tugs, Marauder and Thames tried to tow her into port with many escort ships around her but in spite of the protection she was given from the escort ships on October 28th, a German U-boat, U-32, managed to get by the escorts un-noticed and torpedoed the crippled Empress. She sank within ten minutes. The Empress of Britain was the largest Allied passenger liner to be sunk and weighing 42,348-tons she was the biggest merchant ship loss of the war. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth had travelled aboard Empress of Britain after their 1939 Royal Tour...