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We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning very rare hand made in England fully restored Bordeaux leather Gentleman's club sofa Where to begin! This sofa is absolute eye can...

Pair Nutwood Edelweis Marquetry Chairs Swiss Brienz 1900 A pair wonderful inlayed nutwood chairs decorated with inlayed and painted sceneries depicting chamois, goat, hare, hunter, ...

Antique quality Victorian mahogany spoon back slipper armchair C1870. Solid, no loose joints and no woodworm. Full of age, character and charm. A...

Pair of early Victorian John Henry Belter style side / accent chairs, American. A pair of Victorian era side chairs in the manner of John Henry Belter featuring classic oval back...

Quality antique Victorian walnut stool having a newly reupholstered seat in a quality fabric standing on shaped carved walnut cabriole legs wi...

A pair of early Howard & Sons deep-buttoned armchairs, in birch satinwood and walnut. C.1850 Professionally and traditionally upholstered in a striki...

Victorian Rosewood Cabriole Leg armchair. circa 1860 Standing Upon Cabriole Front legs with Carved Toes. Having Shaped a Front Rail with Carvings and a Wood Show Frame again with ...

Beautiful set of four Late Victorian walnut inlays cane seat side chairs. Measures 16.5 inches in width, 16.5 inches in depth and stand 33.5 inches tall. Seat height is 17.5 inches.

Antique American Empire Victorian Crotch mahogany carved accent side chair. Item features beautiful wood grain, nicely carved details, very nice antique item, great style and form. C...

Vintage woodard chantilly rose wrought iron garden patio sunroom sofa. Item features original Woodard markings, wrought iron constructio...

Elegant, green mohair 19th century sofa with intricately carved detail and nailhead trim.  

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning, fully restored Antique Victorian circa 1880 custom made Piano bench stool that can be used fo...

A quality leather upholstered buttoned back armchair. This well-proportioned armchair has been upholstered in a hand-dyed leather Hyde. The unique design is a one-off and very comfortable and will work in a traditional and contemporary setting. Having a feather cushioned seat and deep buttoned back with individual brass nailed finished. Standing on turned wooden front legs and antiqued brass castors...

A Victorian Style Mahogany and Upholstered Footstool in great antique condition with newer upholstery. Measures 17.5" square and stands 9.5" tall. Matching chair available in our Inv...

This fine handcrafted Folk Art Swedish armchair, dating from the early 20th century, is a striking example of Wabi-Sabi design, celebrating the beauty found in imperfection and age. ...

An Excellent Quality Mid 19th Century, Victorian Period, Walnut Rectangular Salon Stool Having Delightful Old Needlework Tapestry Seat, Over Crispl Carved Moulded Frame, Raised On El...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely finest quality, fully restored, original Antique Victorian Mahogany framed Howard & Son's ea...

Late 19th Century Adjustable Chaise Lounge In Orange Fabric Known As The "Literary Machine" Manufactured By John Carter Of New Cavendish St London An adjustable reading and lounging couch, bearing makers white enamel label. Item is very well made and with wrought iron under carriage bearing substantial and sharp teeth. A real talking piece, would be ideal for a film, or theatrical use or for a home. Extra imensions: Depth: 60cm Height to seat flat: 52cm Width when completely flat: 220cm Width when in upright position: 160cm Height to top of the seat in upright position: 120cm John Carter, 6A Cavendish Street, London Famed for his various inventions under the Trade Marked banner 'Literary Machines', John Carter was a Victorian inventor / cabinet maker operating out of 6A Cavendish Street, Portland Place, London from the 1880's. Carter produced all manner of reading tables, chairs, couches, beds and bath chairs, many specifically aimed at wounded soldiers. Winning 20 gold medals and awards, Carter was maker to The Queen (Victoria), Prince of Wales and Emperors of Russia...

Two 19th century Austrian saddle stools, available as a set. Just a little different and separate, yet very beautiful together. They are also slightly different in size. Unique piece...

Stunning and elegant Victorian rocking chair. Striking English design from the 1890s. Original stained beech frame with tufted brown leather upholstery. This wonderful English Victor...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to this stunning pair of fully restored hand dyed Whisky brown leather wade upholstery Wingba...

We are delighted to offer this very rare and important suite of five fully restored C Hindley & Son’s dining chairs circa 1844-1845 These are a very important and substantial set of chairs, they have been fully restored to include being stripped back to the bare frames, all the timber has been washed back and French polished , they have then been resprung using the original period coil sprung bases, new webbing fitted, then upholstered with premium Italian cattle grade fully aniline plain natural leather which has been individually hand nail tacked in place using antiqued studs, lastly hand dyed six times and antiqued to give it this one off cigar brown colour. These chairs have been on a journey as mentioned and they are true investment pieces, ready to serve the new owner for decades to come. Usually, I wouldn’t take dining chairs through such an expensive process however the carving to the legs is so sublime they warranted the treatment, I have never seen such beautiful Lion’s mains and terminating with hairy paws with recessed castors, these are simply put the finest dining chairs on the market anywhere in the world today you can buy. Dimensions Height:- 94.5cm Width:- 57cm Depth:- 74cm Seat height:- 50cm ABOUT THE CABINET MAKERS Hindley, Charles & Sons Berners Street & Oxford Street, London; cabinet makers, upholsterers and retailers (fl.c.1820-1892) Charles Hugh Hindley (b.1792- d.1871) was the son of Christopher, a merchant in Mere, Wiltshire. He moved to London with an elder brother to live with his uncle, who was possibly running the London branch of the Wiltshire business. In 1817 Charles joined the upholstery firm of Benjamin Merriman Nias at 32 Berners Street. Within a few years he bought the Nias business with a £1,000 investment from his family. Despite his business being described as a 'carpet warehouse' in London directories from 1820-1841, by the mid-1830s upholstery and cabinet work had joined his repertoire and he had taken on more showroom space next door at 31 Berners Street. Family records of the 1840s showed that individual custom-order business expanded to also ‘supplying established furnishing houses with goods on wholesale terms’. Jobs ranged from supplying Pentonville Prison with 100 hair mattresses and pillows, to altering spring roller blinds, to fulfilling private commissions with suites of parlour furniture. Hindley was the father of eleven children with three involved in the business: Charles Hugh (b. 1818), Frederick (b. 1820), and Albert Daniel (b.1822). Charles Hugh and Frederick joined the family firm about 1832, thus establishing the family partnership, Charles Hindley & Sons. Albert Daniel learned the carpet manufactory and trade in Kidderminster and eventually established a carpet manufactory in Liversedge, Yorkshire, supplying the family’s London store and others. In 1845 he patented an early tufted carpeting technique. Charles Hindley & Sons acquired the firm, Miles & Edwards in September 1844, including their premises at 134 Oxford Street. Both companies operated from this address until 1845 when Miles & Edwards was closed. The purchase of Miles & Edwards enabled Hindley & Co. to compete with other West End firms by offering everything from cabinet making and upholstery to painted decoration and interior design for the middle and upper class market. In a sample of 737 orders from October 1842-June 1845, six per cent of the clientele were upper and lower aristocracy with approximately seventy per cent gentry or middle class. The aristocratic clientele included the surnames of Hoare, Kirland, Drummond, Montefiore, Ashburton and Rothschild, and the Oriental Club at 18 Hanover Square (1824). Commissions were also executed for: Lady Fetherstonaugh at Uppark: bills dating 1852 and 1862 for furniture and curtains C B E Wright of Bolton Hall, Yorkshire: decorative wood panels The Earl of Dudley at Himley Hall, Staffordshire: a carved gilt wood centre table with mosaic top, dated 1845 and a bedroom suite (sold by Hampton & Sons, July 1924) Sir Clifford Constable at Burton Constable (1849) George Hammond Lucy at Charlecote Park: carpeting (19 December 1844) The Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle The Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle Lord and Lady Burton of Burton-on-Trent Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall, Durham. Buckingham Palace: a small supply of Chintz wall covering for some rooms (1855) Surviving marked furniture by Hindley & Co. includes a stamped Regency kidney-shaped desk, veneered in yew and panelled with boxwood and ebony inlay, ornamented with finely-chased mounts and beadings, c.1830 [Connoiseur, November 1978], which is possibly the one illustrated in Gilbert (1996), fig. 498, and a walnut writing table with a raised set of drawers, 1840s, stamped C. Hindley & Sons, illus. (Gilbert (1996), fig. 497 and sold by Sotheby’s, 5 August 1981, lot 209. The staff at 134 Oxford Street comprised management, sales staff, designers, foreman, clerks, cabinet makers, chair makers, upholsterers, carvers, carpenters and French polishers. They also contracted tradesmen specialising in particular decorative and finishing techniques; such as Joseph Spong, a japanner, and William Stannard, a carver and gilder, who supplied significant orders, 1845-46. Stannard was also recorded in the stock book for ‘Repairing, Cleaning and Varnishing 18 Paintings [frames] £9.0.0’. Family records describe several employees: ‘a large and very ancient carpenter named Tomlinson… a cabinetmaker named Westbrook... [and] a foreman named Sorrel’. Charles Hindley & Sons showed a large Gothic sideboard at the Great Exhibition in 1851, inspired by Pugin (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 86) and they exhibited a Gothic bookcase and large sideboard at the 1862 International Exhibition, London (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 88). Both were elaborately carved pieces, described in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue as ‘evidence of sound judgment and advanced taste in the designer, and of able and skilful workmanship’. They also participated in the Building Trades Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 7 April 1883]. They exhibited Japanese leather papers at the Manchester Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition, 1882, and were awarded a silver medal for embossed leather wall hangings at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 18 November 1882 & 10 May 10 May 1884]. They also participated in the Workman’s Exhibition at Central Hall in Holborn, 1890 [The Furniture Gazette, 15 April 1890]. The designers did not sign their work but about fifteen different people were probably involved during the fifty-year period. One designer who worked in the late 1880s was J. Armstrong Stenhouse. He and the cabinet makers, G. R. Mackenzie, D. MacLennan and D. F. Lavach, as well as the carver, F. Lucas, worked on two Hindley exhibition pieces for the 2nd exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, London An archive of 114 drawings (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was collated by Charles Albert Hindley (1863-1947), a grandson of the founder. These designs c.1844-1883 (some illustrated in ?Microulis, Furniture History?(2001), figs 1-16.), reflected the current trends of reinterpreted styles such as Gothic and Louis, and several seated furniture designs were labelled with specific commercial names such as the ‘Victoria Chair...

We are delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare original antique circa 1900 cigar brown leather Chesterfield club sofa in restored condition with feather filled cushions a...

This is an antique love seat. An English, walnut and textile duet bench or dog bed, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1840. Beautifully...

Antique Victorian Cast Iron and Oak Wood 72" Long School Work Bench Desk. Item features an ornate cast iron base and supports, 2 writing surfaces, long impressive form, great patina,...

Set of 12 antique Victorian quality carved mahogany dining chairs consisting of two elbow chairs and ten side chairs, elbow chairs having shaped open carved arms supported by reeded ...

Late Victorian Lounge Chair, England circa 1880 Howard Style Ebonized wood feet with original casters William and Morris fabric England, circa 1880 ...

We delight to offer for sale this fantastic Set of Six (4+2) Victorian Carved Oak Carolean-Style Dining Chairs, late 19th century, with removable squab cushions and single-cane back ...

Set of four gorgeous Jacob & Josef Khon & Mundus Walnut Bendwood Ladder Back Side Chairs, Circa 1910s. Recently refinished and look great. Original labels present. Measures 16" in ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of vintage Regency style fully restored Chesterfield Lutyens Viceroy brown leather hand dye...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning fully restored Victorian circa 1880 hand dyed Chesterfield two-seat sofa with fully but...

20th Century oak stool from England, the top is in a cross of Leather Straps . Legs are in a twisted carved shape. This is in a brown color.

A late Victorian oak barley twist armchair with zebra hide upholstery and ball and claw feet. This late Victorian oak barley twist armchair exudes an exceptional blend of traditional...

2 French Victorian natural wicker loveseats trimmed with green and white wrapping having a scalloped back and a stretcher with a seat cushion by PERRET & VIBERT (PRICE EACH) (matches corner loveseat...

A robust and utilitarian Belgian bench from the 1930s, crafted from solid wood. The design is simple and unembellished, with a flat plank seat supported ...

A unique pair of vintage sling chairs. Primitive in style with earthy tones. The frames are made from pine wood rich in a golden color and rounded to smooth perfection. The backrest ...

American Victorian rosewood recamier with brown and white upholstery (Attributed to JOHN HENRY BELTER)

Quality set of four antique mahogany dining chairs with a lovely tall back, carved shaped top lovely carved open splat to the centre, newly recovered drop in seats, standing on taper...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare suite of lightly restored Victorian Chesterfield green Heritage leather dining chairs with ma...

This is gorgeous and impressive throne chair that's perfect for an entryway or foyer, or even at a dining table for just showing off. The chair is intricately carved and in good anti...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning original Victorian Circa 1860 English Mahogany and Brown Leather reclining Metamorphic daybed ...

Antique Wicker and Rattan Wooden Victorian Rocking Chair Rocker. Item features a solid wood wicker wrapped frame, very nice antique, quality ...

Lovely child's mid-Victorian hardwood rocking chair, ebonized with hand painted polychromed floral stenciling to the top back rail in colors of blue, green and red; gold line and fle...

We are delighted to offer for sale this pair of original circa 1860-1880 English William Morris style wingback armchairs with grey linen summer cushions A good looking and well-m...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques are delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of fully restored Chestnut brown leather Wingback armchairs finished with carved Claw & ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely very rare and collectable William Morris Rush seat Sussex armchair circa 1870-1880 as seen in the Victorian and Albert museum The History This chair was named after a country chair found in Sussex, which inspired the design with the turned frame and rush seat. Similar types of chairs, with imitation bamboo frames and rush seats, were fashionable between 1790 and 1820. Ownership & Use William Morris and his wife, Jane, used Sussex chairs in their first home, Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent, from 1860 and subsequently in their London house, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith. Morris's great friend, the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) had Sussex armchairs in his studio, as did the sculptor, Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934). Robert Edis recommended this chair as 'excellent, comfortable and artistic' in his influential book, 'Decoration and Furnishing of Town Houses in 1881'. Examples from the Sussex range were supplied for students' rooms at Newnham College...

Victorian Green Velvet Foot Stool A Lovely piece, this Victorian stool is Square, it stands on neat bun feet and has green velvet upholstery The stool is an original 19th Century p...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning original Victorian J Foot & Son easy armchair in fully restored condition with hand dyed brown...

An early Victorian armchair in mahogany with curved top rail, scrolled arms, turned front legs and saber back legs. Seat is upholstered in a tufted, beige/camel-colored leather with ...

A lovely pair of Howard & Sons armchairs, with deep-buttoned back rests. C.1850 Traditionally upholstered in the earlier Howard and Sons monogram cotton fabric, in blue. Raised on ...

An antique Asian rustic low chair from the 19th century, most likely from burma. carved seat back with handwoven seat presenting a lovely weathered...

A fine French Victorian hand carved walnut high back chair with lovely ecclesiastical detailing on barley twist legs and united by a classic turned H-stretcher. Winged putto flankin...

Antique Victorian quality carved oak armchair having an upholstered back and seat in a quality fabric, carved oak shaped open arms standing on shaped carved cabriole legs with scroll...

A large country house 3 seater sofa raised on a beautifully carved mahogany base. The fabric is worn so the sofa does need upholstery. Measures: 224cm wide 78cm deep 96cm high ...

French Walnut Framed Velvet Tub Chair With Brass Studded Borders Raised on Tapered Supports Classic tub chair well suited to a reading room, or hallway. Height to arms 70cm Width o...

DESK CHAIR #11 Victorian Style Chesterfield Deep Button Brown Antiqued Leather Swivelling Desk Chair With Stud Detailing On A Four S...

Hand carved African Lobi tripod stool made in Burkina Faso in the early half of the 20th century. The Lobi people of Burkina Faso used these stools in their daily lives, primarily b...

American victorian woven wicker high back settee/loveseat with apron. Underside has remnants of Larkin & Co. (Buffalo, NY) label.