A H Mackmurdo for E Goodall. A rare early Art Nouveau Satinwood side table

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...

A pair of Art Nouveau beech stained side tables with clover leaf style tops supported with whiplash uprights beside shaped aprons, flowing with elegant legs finishing on little pad f...

Liberty and Co, attributed. An Aesthetic Movement Walnut side or occasional table with a square top and wavy Art Nouveau uprights on opposing sides flowing do...

Liberty and Co. A superior quality mahogany armchair in the style of Arthur Heygate MacMurdo with a wonderful Art Nouveau style back and fine Queen Anne style legs.

E.W. Godwin attributed for Collinson & Lock. An ebonized and parcel gilt side table chess table with hand painted scenes on silk under an octagonal glass top. The silk has a little w...

Liberty and Co. A rare and unusual Moorish oval eight leg side table with a brass removable top embossed with a medieval lioness holding a sword w...

Art nouveau side table. Professionally stained and repolished.

Beautiful small showcase table from the Art Nouveau period made of ash and oak wood. On all four sides are installed glasses with circumferential facet ...

The side table is made of cherrywood and has a wonderful Art Nouveau design, dates back to the time of Art Nouveau circa 1895. In very good restored condition.

A timeless gem: a vintage Art Nouveau side table, evoking the elegance and charm of the early 20th century. With its meticulously carved hardwood structure, this table breathes the s...

The side or salon table is made of walnut and has a beautiful Art Nouveau design, dates from the Art Nouveau period circa 1900. The columns are with brass base. In very good restored...

Beautiful sewing or side table made of oak wood. The table dates back to the time of Art Nouveau period, more specifically from the time, around 1905. The table has a very nice art n...