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Technique: Fretwork
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo for the Century Guild. An Important Art Nouveau Chair
Located in London, GB
Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851-1942), a highly important oak chair, with an Art Nouveau floral back.
Mackmurdo's influence in Europe is recognized as having produced the earliest examples of Art Nouveau, particularly in the styling of a chair-back designed in 1882 and the title page for Wren's City Churches a year later. The present chair was designed for the head of Rainhill hospital St Helen's south Lancashire/Merseyside (now demolished), an institute for the mentally ill, as part of an interior scheme for his study. It was almost certainly designed and made only for this interior, unlike the earlier chair which was designed in 1882 and made and sold until 1888. It was originally thought this interior was designed by the Liverpool architect Edmund Rathbone whose brother, Harold Rathbone, founded the Della Robbia Pottery factory in 1894.
A picture is shown in Jeremy Cooper's Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, p. 199, illus. 516, from the Bedford Lemere archive at the National Monuments Record, apparently credited as 'Rainhill, Edmund Rathbone'. But Edmund Rathbone was actually the Century Guild...
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1880s English Art Nouveau Antique Fretwork Chairs
Materials
Oak
Antique 19th c French Carved Walnut Side Chair
Located in New Orleans, LA
An antique French carved walnut side chair, having a beautiful pierced and hand carved top rail, hand carved fluted columns and arches and resting on four carved, fluted legs with io...
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1880s French Belle Époque Antique Fretwork Chairs
Materials
Tapestry, Walnut
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Pair of Arts & Crafts Oak Back Pierced Hall Chairs with fabric by Morris & Co
Located in London, GB
A Pair of Arts & Crafts Oak, back pierced hall chairs with re upholstered in Willow Bough Tomato Olive by Morris & Co from the Queen Square fabrics by Ben Pentreath...
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1890s English Arts and Crafts Antique Fretwork Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Oak
19th Century Chinese Yumu Official's Chair with Hand-Carved Splat and Fretwork
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese hand-carved yumu wood 'Official's Chair' from the 19th century, with fretwork and lacquered finish. This Chinese armchair features a rectangular pierced back accented with ...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Fretwork Chairs
Materials
Elm
Antique English Mahogany Chair Fretwork Design Chippendale, circa 1870-1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English mahogany chair Fretwork design Chippendale, circa 1870-1880
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19th Century English Chippendale Antique Fretwork Chairs
Materials
Mahogany
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