Vintage Custom Built KPS Group Arm Chairs - a Pair

Enhance your living space with this exquisite pair of vintage Regency scroll back chairs. Featuring a timeless Regency design with elegant scroll backs, these chairs add a touch of s...

Elevate your space with this exquisite pair of 19th-century Regency-style fauteuil chairs. Crafted with an intricately carved wood frame finished in a warm gilded patina, these chair...

A pair of amazing and rare Windsor-type chairs in stained oak, early 20th Century. Provenance - Merlo Castle just outside Sundsvall in Sweden. Beautiful sculptural shape, unusual ...

A superb quality pair of open armchairs, after late 18th century designs by Gillows of Lancaster and London, the manufacture attributable to Gillow & Co. English, circa 1880. Why we like them Wonderfully elegant model, looking very delicate but in fact unusually strong – the sign of a skilled craftsman. Interestingly, chairs of this exact model can be seen in a painting by Walter Dendy Sadler (British, 1854-1923), The After Lunch Conversation, 1889, sold at Doyle, New York, 21 May 2024, lot 83. Design These chairs correspond to Gillows’ 'Garforth pattern' - a rare and highly desirable design - which first appeared in 1795 and was probably an adaptation of Georges Jacob's design of circa 1792 for Marie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet. Gillows made the chairs not only in mahogany but also japanned, and they appear to have been particularly popular among the genteel, professional, and merchant classes in the north of England. In 1796, the Earl of Strafford purchased six white and green japanned chairs for Wentworth Woodhouse...