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£1,600

This Anglo-Japanese ebonised side chair follows the style of E. W. Godwin and was produced around 1875, during the height of the Aesthetic Movement (1870 – 1890). Godwin’s designs of this period distilled Japanese structural influence into spare rectilinear forms, anticipating the early modern vocabulary of proportion and restraint.

The chair’s back features a rectilinear lattice splat above a broad seat frame, raised on chamfered square legs joined by low stretchers. Its ebonised surface enhances the linear silhouette, while the professionally upholstered leather seat provides a modern intervention sympathetic to the original intent of functional refinement. The design demonstrates the transition from decorative eclecticism toward the architectural discipline central to Godwin’s reformist ideals.

Works of this type were often produced by London cabinet-making firms associated with the Aesthetic circle, responding to Godwin’s published models and exhibition furniture. The present example remains structurally sound with a newly upholstered seat in quality hide.

Dimensions

Height: 32.68 in (83 cm)
Width: 16.14 in (41 cm)
Depth: 15.75 in (40 cm)

Year of manufacture

1875

In the style of

Edward William Godwin

Period

Aesthetic Movement
1870-1879

Style

Anglo-Japanese

Condition

Good

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