Set of 4 French Industrial Metal Mesh Armchairs

Pair of Biedermeier style armchairs with clean, simple lines in lighter wood believed to be birch, circa 1930s. Seats have muslin cover and are ready to be upholstered in fabric of y...

Tall French armchair with high upholstered back, carved details on the arms, legs and apron, and new neutral-colored upholstery with decorative na...

Found in Italy, this pair of circa 1970s armchairs feature polished chrome frames with a circle form base and curved arms. Seats are scoop shaped with new navy blue chenille upholste...

Pair of circa 1920s tall French winged armchairs with turned legs and stretchers, new off sand colored chenille velvet upholstery and coordin...

Pair of French club chairs with black upholstery, circa 1930s. Front of chairs feature ball feet and flared arms with contrasting off-white vellum inserts. Sold and priced as a pair....

Pair of circa 1940s French bridge chairs have polished beech frames with curved arms, shield-shaped back rests and are newly upholstered in ...

A petite wooden child’s chair in the Louis-Philippe style from the 19th century. This petite 19th century French wooden Louis-Philippe style child’s armchair is covered on the backre...

Mid-Century Industrial patinated unfinished metal wall mounted coat / hat rack with three rows of hooks and two mesh metal shelves.

Original mid-century umbrella stand in the manner of Mathieu Mategot. It is made from metal mesh. The white paint is original. Besides an umbrella stand it is also suitable as a wast...

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...