C. R. Ashbee for the Guild of Handicraft. A Rare Arts & Crafts Oak Armchair

£12,500 £10,000

C. R. Ashbee for The Guild of Handicraft. A rare Arts and Crafts oak armchair with larger proportions than usual. The shaped back makes this armchair ergonomically perfect and rather comfortable I must say. With subtle details to the feet. Literature: Der Moderne Stil, 1905, vol. 7, pl. 8, fig. 6 (for an example with inlaid splat); The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art, 1907, p. 47 (for an example photographed within a Cheyne Walk interior); Crawford, Alan, C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist, Yale, 1985, p. 287.

Additional Measurements: arm height: 71.5cm/28.15" Inches seat height: 52.5cm/20.67" Inches

Dimensions
Height: 42.72 in (108.5 cm)
Width: 30.39 in (77.2 cm)
Depth: 25.98 in (66 cm)
Year of manufacture
1905
Maker
Guild of Handicraft
Designer
Charles Robert Ashbee
Period
Arts & Crafts Movement
1900-1909
Style
Arts and Crafts
Condition
Good
Condition consistent with age and use

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