Liberty and Co, Attributed – Arts and Crafts Oak Armchair with Inlaid Crown
£2,500
Attributed to Liberty and Co, an oak armchair aligned to the Arts and Crafts movement (1880–1910), 1905. The design follows Liberty’s interest in upright chair forms with decorative inlay and lightly refined construction.
The tall back carries a shaped headrest inlaid with a royal crown motif, worked in pewter, walnut and fruitwoods. Three vertical back splats below carry further inlaid decoration. The arms are set on square uprights with a gently raked profile, leading to a leather covered seat above a simple H stretcher arrangement. The proportions give the chair a contained but upright stance suitable for dining or occasional use.
The combination of oak framing, mixed timber and pewter inlay and the vertical emphasis of the splats sits within Liberty and Co’s wider Arts and Crafts vocabulary from the early twentieth century, when the firm produced a range of inlaid seating within this idiom.
Seat height: 47 cm, arm height: 73 cm.
Width: 22.44 in (57 cm)
Depth: 22.83 in (58 cm)
1900-1909
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