Padouk Seating

A most beautiful Art Nouveau solid padauk settee in the manner of Louis Majorelle and dating from c. 1900 with scroll carved top rail, wonderfully arched back and gilt bronze jasmine flower and leaf mounts to the front feet. The settee of such beautiful form and proportions, comfortable and well padded. Exceptionally heavy and solid with no movement in any joint. Louis Majorelle, the son of a cabinet maker, was born in Toul, France in 1859. He trained as an artist and later studied under Jean-Francois Millet at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1879 his father died and he returned to Nancy to take over the family workshop. He focussed on the style of Art Nouveau and began to make hand crafted and beautifully finished furniture conceived in that style. He worked in Mahogany and Walnut and in exotic timbers such as Padauk and Purple Heart (a tall cabinet held by the Victorian and Albert Museum) which he used in the solid on large pieces. He produced sinuous flowing designs, some with elaborate marquetry of flowers, vines, seaweed and fruits and some with similar and botanical gilt bronze mounts – orchids, hawthorn, jasmine and lilies. He was extremely prolific and produced hundreds of designs in every decade from 1880 through to the first half of the 1920s. Many of his pieces bore only a paper label and were not signed. This settee embodies the modified flowing and sinuous line that typifies his work. It is made in solid Padauk and is of incredible quality. The gilt bronze jasmine flower mounts, the sinuous carving and fine joinery are all very much in the manner of and attributable to Louis Marjorelle. In 1914 a fire swept through Majorelle’s workshop in Nancy and destroyed all of his furniture in production, catalogues and designs, so that much of his work remains unknown and un-catalogued. See ‘Louis Majorelle Master of Art Nouveau Design’ by Alistair Duncan. Louis Majorelle died in 1926 at his beautiful Villa Majorelle in Nancy, a house he designed and furnished personally. The settee has been newly and professionally re-upholstered in a superb quality Versaille gold velvet with three scatter cushions made in Safari black...

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Sigurd Resell, 1920-2010. A beautiful and sculptural teak armchair designed by Sigurd Resell, model SR-59. Made in solid Padouk, seat upholstered with black leather. Designed in 1959 and produced by cabinetmaker Niels Vodder, retailed by Illum's Bolighus. In original untouched condition with beautiful natural patina.

Magnificent and ultra rare pair of Art Deco Modernist lounge chairs. Design by Hendrik Wouda for H. Pander & Zonen Den Haag. Striking Dutch design from 1929. Solid padouk frames with solid macassar ebony lining. Re-upholstered with blue and grey velvet fabric. In very good condition with a beautiful patina. The Modernist look of this wonderful pair of Art Deco lounge chairs by Hendrik Wouda is also known in the Netherlands under the name Haagse School. The Haagse School was inspired by the designs of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The famous Dutch Art Magazine Wendingen published a series of articles on Frank Lloyd Wright in 1925. Well known architects of the Haagse School are Hendrik Wouda, Jan Wils, Frits Spanjaard, Cor Alons and Jan Brunott. These iconic and true museum pieces were designed by Hendrik Wouda for the Vila of the well known business family Van Berkel...

Magnificent and rare pair of Art Nouveau stools. Design by K.P.C. de Bazel. Striking Dutch design from the 1900s. Solid padouk frame and re-upholstered wit...

Stunning Art Deco Amsterdamse School style hall bench. Design by Alberts & van Huut architects. Striking Dutch design from the 21st Century. Solid padouk. This bench was designed...

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A refined Dutch East Indies Regency armchair is made from solid Padouk with a cane seat. The highly refined Dutch Colonial Chair has a reeded pirced and carved back splat below the s...

A pair of continuous yokeback armchairs in the Ming style, each chair with an subtly arched yokeback toprail supported by shaped spandrels and curving down to...

George II (Chippendale) period eagle arm ball and claw foot carved armchair of Padouk wood, circa 1760. Measures: Seat height 18.5" We are proud of our long-standing partnership with George N Antiques...

Three-legged stool in padauk. Rare wood type. Maker Thorald Madsen. Design 1942.

These dining chairs were designed by Luciano Frigerio. The chairs are veneered with various woods: Walnut, Mahogany, Padouk, Wenge. There is also a ta...