British Dining Room Chairs

Embrace the timeless elegance of the mid-century modernism with these four Ercol candlestick back dining chairs. Crafted with pride in the United Kingdom, each chair stands testament...

The Chippendale style mahogany dining chairs with 2 arm chairs and 10 side chairs featuring pierced black splats, removable light blue leather seats and carved cabriole legs with bal...

This set of six Lancashire Spindle Back Farmhouse Chairs were made between 1870-1880. Lancashire, a county in North West England, is known for witches, cheese, and chairs like these....

Set of 10 antique Victorian quality mahogany dining chairs by Holland and Sons having a shaped top, reeded shaped splat to the centre, newly reupholstered seats in a quality fabric standing on elegant turned tapering legs to the front and out swept back legs. The makers' mark Holland...

Set of four mid century Antelope chairs designed by Ernest Race. Each labelled: Race Made in England. Circa late 1950's. Originally designed for the Festival of Britain 1951 as an interior and al fresco chair...

A set of 12 fine George II design banquet chair with classical rake to the back on acanthus and shell carved legs terminating in a carved hairy claw foo...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare suite of lightly restored Victorian Chesterfield green Heritage leather dining chairs with ma...

Antiques of London We are delighted to offer for sale this Lovely Set of 8 Yew Wood Dining Chairs. The set of 8 dining chairs features a stunning combination of yew wood frames w...

Set of ten well carved mahogany Chippendale dining chairs. Two arm and eight sides. Upholstered seats. Nicely carved backs, English.

1950's Pel Tubular Grey Metal Dining Chairs - Large Quantity Available 1950's Pel Tubular Grey Metal Dining Chairs - Large Quantity Available. One of the ...

The sunday bench, in walnut. An Alexander & Ellis collection piece exclusively designed by Founder Oliver A-J. Despite being great for any space, the ben...

Royal House Antiques Royal house Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning suite of six Regency style vintage fully restored Chesterfield aged Oxblood leather dining cha...

A Fine Set of 14 William IV Period Dining Chairs From His Majesty's Ministerial Home Office Constructed from mahogany, the chairs with turned and tapering reeded front legs terminat...

"A set of 6 Victorian period, mahogany dining chairs, circa 1870. This set features attractively figured timbers with curved top rails, with an open back. Overstuffed upholstered sea...

Set of Eight English Regency painted and silver gilt dining room chairs with scrolled arms, original ormolu mounts, and resting on saber legs. Late 18th Century. Dining room chairs h...

Quality antique Victorian mahogany set of four dining chairs having a quality shaped top and a shaped splat to the centre with serpentine shaped seats covered in a quality fabric. Th...

A Set of Eight Regency Mahogany Dining Chairs, Including a Pair of Elbow ‘Carver’ Chairs With curved bar top rails and ebonised star decoration and inlay, with drop on seats on sabr...

An attractive set of 10 Hepplewhite style dining chairs from the 20th century, crafted in mahogany. Each chair features drop-in seats upholstered in a pinkish-red fabric, adding a to...

Set of Six Regency Brass Inlaid Faux Rosewood Dining Chairs - with bergere caned seats on front sabre legs - 18"w x 18"d x 34"h (18" to the seat)

Royal House Antiques We are delighted to offer this important suite of museum quality, antique Colonial Rosewood Thomas Chippendale, fret work carved dining chairs Please note the delivery fee listed is just a guide and covers London only for the UK and local Europe for the rest of the world, if you are outside of this area please send me your address and I will provide you with an accurate quote Where to begin, if you’re looking at this listing then the chances are you know exactly how significant this suite is, Thomas Chippendale was simply put, the most important furniture designer in history, these chairs are the only Colonial examples I have ever seen and in Rosewood no less, they weigh roughly three times more than a standard dining chair of the same style and size, they are very substantial The chairs are late 19th century circa 1880-1900, they are of course based on the original 18th century examples, the carving is exquisitely executed and the chairs look sophisticated and elegant from all angles The suite has been sympathetically restored to include a deep clean, hand condition wax and hand polish, the seat covers have been left as they are, they are ok, I can have them reupholstered for the cost price to anything the new owners wish Literature Two chairs illustrated in Tabellenbuch Holztechnik, Hamburg, 2013, p. 271. Exhibited Ten chairs on loan to Birmingham Museums circa 1985-2010 and exhibited at Aston Hall, Birmingham, where photographed in situ.. Dimensions Height:- 93cm Width:- 56cm Depth:- 53cm Seat height:- 47cm Please note all measurements are taken at the widest point. Lot Essay These chairs are closely related to those in two recognised Chippendale commissions: Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet for Normanton Hall, Rutland and William Crichton-Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries (4th Earl of Stair, 1699-1768) for Dumfries House, Ayrshire. THE RELATED CHAIRS The chairs are of identical decoration to the set of two armchairs and ten single chairs, circa 1765, formerly at Normanton Hall (1). In 1759, Sir Gilbert Heathcote (d. 1785), 3rd Baronet, succeeded to the vast inheritance established by his grandfather, also Gilbert, 1st Baronet (1652-1733), who was reputed to be ‘the richest commoner in England’ (2). The 3rd Baronet employed both Chippendale Senior and his son, Chippendale Junior, in the furnishing of his Palladian mansion, Normanton Hall in Rutland, and his London houses, 29 Grosvenor Square, London and Browne's House at North End, Fulham. Surviving Chippendale accounts, although incomplete, show that the firm was working periodically for members of the Heathcote family from 1768 to 1821. Most of the furniture listed in these accounts was intended for Browne’s House, although after 1798 when the family relinquished this residence some of the furniture was moved to Normanton Hall. The latter was sold in 1924, and any furniture not included in the Normanton Hall sale was taken to the Earl of Ancaster’s seat at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. Chippendale’s earliest invoice for Sir Gilbert Heathcote records the acquisition in 1768 of ‘6 India Back and arm chairs Japand to imitate the Bamboe’, signifying how the family embraced the highly fashionable chinoiserie taste. Although the Normanton chairs cannot be conclusively identified in the extant Chippendale accounts, their form and ornamentation led Christopher Gilbert to suggest that they were possibly by Chippendale (3). The set of four mahogany chairs at Dumfries House have nearly-identical pagoda-form cresting rails and identical terminals but differ in the arrangement of the 'Chinese' paling in the backs and side panels. Although no documentary evidence for the Dumfries chairs survives, in their execution and sophisticated carving of the toprails, they are extremely close to Chippendale’s hand. Another near-set of closely related chairs is at Saltram House, Devon, where Chippendale worked between 1771-2; these dates are based on payments in John Parker's cash account book, and probably do not reflect a true picture of the entire commission as Parker often paid tradesmen by banker's draft (4). Comprising two armchairs and seven single chairs, this set, circa 1765, is made of padouk, and has been described by the National Trust as ‘Chinese Export’ (5). The set was returned to Saltram in 1951 having been accepted by H.M. Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951). Some of the chairs are currently on display in ‘The Chinese Chippendale Bedroom’. A further set of four padouk chairs of the Saltram pattern was almost certainly at Kenwood House, London; some of these are recorded in 18th century inventories drawn up by Lord Mansfield. This set was removed to Scone Palace, Perth, prior to the auction at Kenwood in 1922, and subsequently sold from ‘Scone Palace and Blairquhan: The Selected Contents of Two Great Scottish Houses’, Christie’s, London, 24 May 2007, lot 298. Another pair of padouk chairs of this model sold ‘The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller’, Christie’s, New York, 10 May 2018, lot 647 ($193,750 inc. premium). THE DESIGN Conceived in the Chinese manner expounded by William and John Halfpenny in Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste (1752), and Sir William Chambers in his Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils (1757), the pattern for this set of ‘Pagoda’ chairs relates to nine designs for ‘Chinese Chairs’ in the 1st edition of Chippendale’s Director (1754); the cabinet-maker describes these designs thus: Plates XXIII, XXIV and XXV are nine Chairs in the present Chinese manner, which I hope will improve that taste, or manner of work; it having yet never arrived to any perfection; doubtless it might be lost without feeling its beauty: as it admits of the greatest variety, I think it the most useful of any other. The sizes are all specified on the designs. The three last (No. XXV.) I hope will be well received, as there has been none like them yet made. The Georgian period witnessed the proliferation of such railed and pagoda-crested chairs in both the ‘picturesque’ Chinese tea pavilions of landscaped parks as well as in fashionable apartments hung with ‘India’ paper. The geometric ‘Chinese’ feet of these chairs are also found on a set of pedestals...

This lovely set of dining chairs are made from oak and leather with brass studs. Made in the 1910s - a great example of British antiques in the Arts and Crafts style.

1950s Pel – Cox Tubular Metal Outdoor Dining Chairs With Blue Seats – Quantity Available 1950’s Pel – Cox Tubular Metal Outdoor Dining Chairs With Blue Seats –...

Set of six period English walnut George II side chairs Six period Georgian side chairs in transitional form moving from Queen Anne to Ge...

Rare and Important set of 10 mid 19th century barley twist oak dining chairs (2 grand carvers and 8 side chairs) retaining their original uni...

1960’s Original Upholstered Ben Dining Chairs – Good Quantity Available 1960’s Original Upholstered Ben Dining Chairs – Good Quantity Available. Ben chairs were originally produced i...

Set of six antique Victorian superb quality carved mahogany library/dining chairs having a superb quality carved mahogany scroll shape back, original red leather upholstered seats st...

Made in the last quarter of the 19th century to the first quarter of the 20th century. All bench made ( hand crafted ) set of ten English mahogany dining chairs in the Sheraton style...

A stylish and very well made set of six vintage mid century dining chairs. They were made in England, they date from the 1960’s. The...

With a hint of the Grand Tour and a dash of Klismos style, a bow back dining chair of pleasing proportions. In mahogany with kick out back legs a...

A set of 4 'Manila' dining chairs designed by Val Padilla and retailed by Conran in the 1980's. Composed from black lacquered wooden frames and woven, stai...

A set of x6 hand carved, Venetian style, dining chairs featuring tall backs and overall elegant proportions. The chairs are finished in a hand painted Gesso white patina which is dis...

This set of 4 antique dining chairs from the mid-19th century is a fantastic addition for lovers of true antiques. They feature beautiful details, giving them their charming appearan...

This is a lovely set of 8 English cane seat dining chairs. They have wood carved features, cabriole legs, and cane seats. The wood coloring is a patin...

Fine set of 8 antique George III mahogany dining chairs consisting of a pair of elbow chairs and 6 single chairs having superb quality mahogany carved backs with a turned mahogany su...

This set of 6 antique English dining chairs are made from mahogany and come with upholstered seats. The choice of wood, expensive for the period, and the carved back rail, splat and ...

Set of 4 antique George III quality mahogany dining chairs having a quality mahogany shaped top, carved mahogany splat to the centre, upholstered red leather seats standing on an ele...

Early 19th century set of 10 Chippendale design dining chairs circa 1810. We are pleased to present this set of 10 mahogany dining chairs, comprising of 2 carver armchairs and 8 sin...

This beautiful set of antique Windsor dining chairs has developed a wonderful patina over the years. The chairs feature a spindled backrest and a beautifully shaped seat. They are no...

Dining chairs English set of 6 assembled Chippendale England. An assembled set of 6 Chippendale chairs made in England during the 18th cent...

Set of 8 carved walnut dining chairs by Spillman & co circa 1910. Fine quality set of 8 walnut dining chairs by well known London retailer Spillman & co of London. All 8 chairs are...

A fine set of 8 Georgian Hepplewhite style carved mahogany shield back dining chairs of good colour and condition. With serpentine fronts, drop in upholstered seats, affording comfor...

Set of 6 antique George III quality mahogany inlaid dining chairs consisting of 6 single chairs having a shaped top rail with satinwood inlay, 3 reeded splats to the back, newly reu...

Set of Eight Chippendale Style Chairs A set of Georgian style Chippendale mahogany dining room chairs. The set comprises six single chairs and a pair of elbow chairs...

A super original set of 14, 19th century Arts & Crafts golden oak dining chairs probably by Liberty’s or Wylie & Lochhead. Comprising 12 side ...

Each with a scroll-carved crestrail over a carved palmette splat and a drop-in seat. Raised on front and back saber legs. Armchairs: 33 ½" high, 22" wide, 19 ½" deep Side Chairs: 3...

A set of four single stem swivel chairs, with the original green vinyl upholstery. Standing on four prong steel splayed feet with all rubber tips intact. Size Width 44cm x depth 5...

We are delighted to offer this very rare and important suite of five fully restored C Hindley & Son’s dining chairs circa 1844-1845 These are a very important and substantial set of chairs, they have been fully restored to include being stripped back to the bare frames, all the timber has been washed back and French polished , they have then been resprung using the original period coil sprung bases, new webbing fitted, then upholstered with premium Italian cattle grade fully aniline plain natural leather which has been individually hand nail tacked in place using antiqued studs, lastly hand dyed six times and antiqued to give it this one off cigar brown colour. These chairs have been on a journey as mentioned and they are true investment pieces, ready to serve the new owner for decades to come. Usually, I wouldn’t take dining chairs through such an expensive process however the carving to the legs is so sublime they warranted the treatment, I have never seen such beautiful Lion’s mains and terminating with hairy paws with recessed castors, these are simply put the finest dining chairs on the market anywhere in the world today you can buy. Dimensions Height:- 94.5cm Width:- 57cm Depth:- 74cm Seat height:- 50cm ABOUT THE CABINET MAKERS Hindley, Charles & Sons Berners Street & Oxford Street, London; cabinet makers, upholsterers and retailers (fl.c.1820-1892) Charles Hugh Hindley (b.1792- d.1871) was the son of Christopher, a merchant in Mere, Wiltshire. He moved to London with an elder brother to live with his uncle, who was possibly running the London branch of the Wiltshire business. In 1817 Charles joined the upholstery firm of Benjamin Merriman Nias at 32 Berners Street. Within a few years he bought the Nias business with a £1,000 investment from his family. Despite his business being described as a 'carpet warehouse' in London directories from 1820-1841, by the mid-1830s upholstery and cabinet work had joined his repertoire and he had taken on more showroom space next door at 31 Berners Street. Family records of the 1840s showed that individual custom-order business expanded to also ‘supplying established furnishing houses with goods on wholesale terms’. Jobs ranged from supplying Pentonville Prison with 100 hair mattresses and pillows, to altering spring roller blinds, to fulfilling private commissions with suites of parlour furniture. Hindley was the father of eleven children with three involved in the business: Charles Hugh (b. 1818), Frederick (b. 1820), and Albert Daniel (b.1822). Charles Hugh and Frederick joined the family firm about 1832, thus establishing the family partnership, Charles Hindley & Sons. Albert Daniel learned the carpet manufactory and trade in Kidderminster and eventually established a carpet manufactory in Liversedge, Yorkshire, supplying the family’s London store and others. In 1845 he patented an early tufted carpeting technique. Charles Hindley & Sons acquired the firm, Miles & Edwards in September 1844, including their premises at 134 Oxford Street. Both companies operated from this address until 1845 when Miles & Edwards was closed. The purchase of Miles & Edwards enabled Hindley & Co. to compete with other West End firms by offering everything from cabinet making and upholstery to painted decoration and interior design for the middle and upper class market. In a sample of 737 orders from October 1842-June 1845, six per cent of the clientele were upper and lower aristocracy with approximately seventy per cent gentry or middle class. The aristocratic clientele included the surnames of Hoare, Kirland, Drummond, Montefiore, Ashburton and Rothschild, and the Oriental Club at 18 Hanover Square (1824). Commissions were also executed for: Lady Fetherstonaugh at Uppark: bills dating 1852 and 1862 for furniture and curtains C B E Wright of Bolton Hall, Yorkshire: decorative wood panels The Earl of Dudley at Himley Hall, Staffordshire: a carved gilt wood centre table with mosaic top, dated 1845 and a bedroom suite (sold by Hampton & Sons, July 1924) Sir Clifford Constable at Burton Constable (1849) George Hammond Lucy at Charlecote Park: carpeting (19 December 1844) The Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle The Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle Lord and Lady Burton of Burton-on-Trent Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall, Durham. Buckingham Palace: a small supply of Chintz wall covering for some rooms (1855) Surviving marked furniture by Hindley & Co. includes a stamped Regency kidney-shaped desk, veneered in yew and panelled with boxwood and ebony inlay, ornamented with finely-chased mounts and beadings, c.1830 [Connoiseur, November 1978], which is possibly the one illustrated in Gilbert (1996), fig. 498, and a walnut writing table with a raised set of drawers, 1840s, stamped C. Hindley & Sons, illus. (Gilbert (1996), fig. 497 and sold by Sotheby’s, 5 August 1981, lot 209. The staff at 134 Oxford Street comprised management, sales staff, designers, foreman, clerks, cabinet makers, chair makers, upholsterers, carvers, carpenters and French polishers. They also contracted tradesmen specialising in particular decorative and finishing techniques; such as Joseph Spong, a japanner, and William Stannard, a carver and gilder, who supplied significant orders, 1845-46. Stannard was also recorded in the stock book for ‘Repairing, Cleaning and Varnishing 18 Paintings [frames] £9.0.0’. Family records describe several employees: ‘a large and very ancient carpenter named Tomlinson… a cabinetmaker named Westbrook... [and] a foreman named Sorrel’. Charles Hindley & Sons showed a large Gothic sideboard at the Great Exhibition in 1851, inspired by Pugin (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 86) and they exhibited a Gothic bookcase and large sideboard at the 1862 International Exhibition, London (illustrated Microulis, Studies in the Decorative Arts (Spring/Summer 1998) p. 88). Both were elaborately carved pieces, described in the Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue as ‘evidence of sound judgment and advanced taste in the designer, and of able and skilful workmanship’. They also participated in the Building Trades Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 7 April 1883]. They exhibited Japanese leather papers at the Manchester Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition, 1882, and were awarded a silver medal for embossed leather wall hangings at the Calcutta International Exhibition, 1883 [The Furniture Gazette, 18 November 1882 & 10 May 10 May 1884]. They also participated in the Workman’s Exhibition at Central Hall in Holborn, 1890 [The Furniture Gazette, 15 April 1890]. The designers did not sign their work but about fifteen different people were probably involved during the fifty-year period. One designer who worked in the late 1880s was J. Armstrong Stenhouse. He and the cabinet makers, G. R. Mackenzie, D. MacLennan and D. F. Lavach, as well as the carver, F. Lucas, worked on two Hindley exhibition pieces for the 2nd exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society, London An archive of 114 drawings (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was collated by Charles Albert Hindley (1863-1947), a grandson of the founder. These designs c.1844-1883 (some illustrated in ?Microulis, Furniture History?(2001), figs 1-16.), reflected the current trends of reinterpreted styles such as Gothic and Louis, and several seated furniture designs were labelled with specific commercial names such as the ‘Victoria Chair...

Set of Eight English mahogany dining room chairs with carved shell intertwined quatrefoil splat backs, scrolled acanthus arms, removable l...

We are delighted to this suite of six bicast leather dining chairs with custom made fabric covers These a good functional set of chairs, they are comfortable and very contemporary...

Set of 6 antique Victorian quality carved mahogany balloon back dining chairs having a quality mahogany shaped balloon back with a carved splat to the centre, newly reupholstered sea...

This beautiful antique Windsor dining chair has developed a wonderful patina over the years. The chair features a spindled backrest and a beautifully shaped seat. It is not only func...

Matched set of six 19th century yew wood broad arm Windsor chairs, the hoop backs with a pierced and shaped central splat above ash and elm seats surrounded by broad arms. Raised up ...

- Attractive armchair injecting period character into any interior - Sturdy and suitable for regular use - This model of chair was made in plentiful numbers in the mid-17th century...

A set of 8 George III Sheraton period dining chairs, two carvers and six singles in figured mahogany of a good nut brown colour and in good condition. The camel backs with attractive...

We are delighted to offer for sale this suite of six absolutely exquisite quality hand made in England Mahogany framed dining chairs after Gillows These chairs are honestly the fi...

A beautiful and iconic set of vintage bent ply and walnut dining chairs, these were designed by Robin Day in the 1950s, they are called the Hillestak chairs...

A Set of Twenty Regency Dining Chairs Each with a tablet top rail carved with anthemion on either side above a reeded horizontal splat and fluted uprights, on hessian covered seat, above turned and reeded tapering front legs. The overall design of this elegant set of dining chairs derives from designs for chairs in the Greek Revival style popularized by Thomas Hope in his Household Furniture and Decoration, published in 1807. This set of chairs was removed the Bath Assembly Rooms in Bath – a series of elegant reception rooms designed by Robert Wood in 1769 for public entertainment, such as card playing, taking tea, and dancing. During the Georgian and Regency period these rooms were the main hub of fashionable society, and Jane Austin...

English Oak wood dining chair with Boucle Wool upholstery from the Scottish Isle of Bute. Hand made wooden dining chair and desk chair by the award winning Goldfinch Brookes in his M...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning vintage black leather chrome stud Gainsborough carver armchair with Thomas Chippendale style fret work carving A very good looking...

We are delighted to this stunning suite of six fully restored early Victorian circa 1840 mahogany framed brown leather dining chairs These are a very fine, highly decorative and e...