Pair Of Custom Upholstered Chippendale Style Carved Armchairs

A pair of exceptional Club Chairs in Chippendale style. The carved frames in a dark stain with square slightly sloping backs, scrolled arms and faux bamboo Chinese Chippendale style ...

A pair of very well made and superbly decorative Club Chairs in French Style with double-walled Cane sides and backs and deep-toned frames with gently sloping arms, delicate fretwork...

A beautifully made pair of antique Chippendale style armchairs. They were made in England, they date from around the 1890-1900 period. They have a gorgeous design, with beautifully ...

An important pair of mid-18th century Chippendale period mahogany Library Armchairs, having unusual carved and scrolled cartouche-shaped backs, with scroll moulded set-back arms. The Chairs having stuffover seats with gadrooned borders, supported on blind fret carved cabriole legs with scrolled toes. For similar examples see Chippendale's Director, 'French Chairs' Plate XXI Further information: Similar examples of our Library Armchairs can be found in the third edition of Thomas Chippendale book Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director (1762). The pair resembles the right chair design in Plate XXI, catalogued by Chippendale as “French Chairs”. He described in his book that this model “may be executed to advantage, some of them are intended to be open below at the back: which makes them very light without having a bad effect.’ His design illustrates his familiarity with the fashionable French Rococo style represented by the curvilinear form of the chair and scrolled feet. The carved surface decoration on our Chairs is much less elaborate than that on the published design and is more reminiscent of the work of Robert Manwaring...