Welded Steel "Mud Room" Seat

SATURDAY SALE 20 July 2024 Set of ten American art deco mahogany dining chairs with streamline curved arms designed in 1938/1939 by Archibald Taylor A.I.D. for the Nob Hill residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Scanlon, San Francisco. The eleven room modernist apartment, designed by Taylor, was featured in Architectural Digest Volume XII Issue 4, 1950 (see images). Arm height/table clearance 27 inches. These chairs were deaccessioned from the American furniture collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 2013, having been gifted to the museum in 1985 by noted collector John P. Axelrod who himself had acquired them in 1978 from San Francisco dealer...

Seven sinewy curved walnut spindle-back dining chairs; 2 arm chairs and 5 side chairs, exceptionally well made (note cross-stretchers and tightness of joints, curved swan-like arms, hex blocks and bowed spindle rails). Maker unknown but clearly in the style of Robsjohn-Gibbings. Solid quality Mid-Century Modern dining chairs that feel good to the touch. Measure: Arm height 26.5 Sold only as a set of seven. We recovered two chairs in an ivory moire...

In 1959 Friso Kramer transformed his 1953 Revolt chair into his absolute masterpiece, the 'theatre" chair, a Revolt chair that was linkable, stackable with a fold up seat for use mai...

It does not come with an insert but a bag made to the size to accommodate insert materials. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry cleaning is recommended.