Pair of English Art Nouveau Side Chairs By G M Ellwood for G S Henry

A pair of carver chairs in oak with decorative stylised flower inlay of pewter and green stained veneer with chequered pattern design, Seats in white Leather with brass upholstery studs. Designed by G M Ellwood...

Art Nouveau nest of 4 stained beech bentwood tables By Thonet Circa 1900 Michael Thonet (1796-1871) perfected a new technique of bending solid wood during the 1850s, enabling mass p...

Iconic Arts & Crafts oak armchair Original rush seat and back panels Stylised ebony floral decorative inlay Designed by E G Punnett For William Birch Circa 1900 Book image cour...

Arts & Crafts mahogany barrel back chair Serpentine front Drop in rush seat Liberty & Co Circa 1900 Height 73cm. Width 67cm. Depth 52cm. Seat Height 37cm Please see image de...

Arts & Crafts rare pair of ladder back oak armchairs With rush seats By Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens Circa 1902 Height 98cm Width 61cm Depth 50cm "Sir Edwin Lutyens was a designer an...

Modern Day craftsman made Library chair ‘ZENO’ English quarter sawn natural oak, brass and ash With raised exposed dovetails Opening magazine and tablet holder to one side with leath...

An armchair designed by George Montague Ellwood and made by J S Henry, with arched top and oval mother-of-pearl inlays just below the ears and sinuous arms w...

Designed by George Montague Ellwood and made by J S Henry, with marquetry and brass details.

Sn4533 pair of stylish Art Nouveau chairs, one being a carver chair, both having carved decoration to finely inlaid back, generous seat and tapered legs terminating in pad feet. This...

A pair of upholstered armchairs having raked slipper forms with arched backs incorporating lumbar padding, streamlined rolled arms and long stylish Art Nouveau carved outswept legs e...

George Montague Ellwood. Made by J S Henry. An Arts & Crafts oak throne armchair with capped finials and wonderful sweeping back supports, on tapering square legs.

A pair of Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau carved wood "Aubépine" armchairs by, Louis Majorelle. Both chairs are decorated on their back edges, arms, legs and skirt with carved hawthorn leaves and berry decoration upholstered in a off/cream white light snake pattern. circa 1905 Measurements: height: 32.25 in. (81.92 cm) x width: 36.75 in. (93.35 cm) x depth: 21 in. (53.34 cm) Condition: chairs are in overall very good condition with light wear. Fabric is not period. Literature: Similar chairs are pictured in: -Majorelle - Nancy: décorations d'INTÉRIEURS: meubles, tentures, bronzes, ferronneries (the 1906 Majorelle catalogue), and in: Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau design, by Alastair Duncan, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991, p. 200. -Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design, London, 1991, pp. 167, 183 and 200 -Majorelle: Un Art de Vivre Moderne, exh. cat., Musée de l'École de Nancy, France, 2009, p. 130 Biography : Louis Majorelle, (France; 1859 – 1926) born as Louis-Jean-Sylvestre Majorelle was a French decorator and furniture designer who manufactured his own designs, in the French tradition of the ébéniste. He was one of the outstanding designers of furniture in the Art Nouveau style, and after 1901 formally served as one of the vice-presidents of the École de Nancy. The Majorelle firm's factory was designed by famous École de Nancy architect Lucien Weissenburger (1860 – 1929) and located at 6, rue du Vieil-Aître in the western part of Nancy. In the 1880s Majorelle turned out pastiches of Louis XV furniture styles, which he exhibited in 1894 at the Exposition d'Art Décoratif et Industriel [Exposition of Decorative and Industrial Art] in Nancy, but the influence of the glass- and furniture-maker Emile Gallé (1846 – 1904) inspired him to take his production in new directions. Beginning in the 1890s, Majorelle's furniture, embellished with inlays, took their inspiration from nature: stems of plants, waterlily leaves, tendrils, dragonflies. Before 1900 he added a metalworking atelier to the workshops, to produce drawerpulls and mounts in keeping with the fluid lines of his woodwork. His studio also was responsible for the ironwork of balconies, staircase railings...