C R Ashbee for Guild of Handicraft. A beech ladderback armchair with a re-rushed seat

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Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942) for the Guild of Handicraft. A beech ladderback armchair, with a re-rushed seat, 119cm high; and a single chair en suite. Designed for the dining room of the 'Magpie and Stump', Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, his family home from 1896. One can see the taller ladderback at the head of the table in a watercolour showing the dining room of his house. See Cooper, Jeremy 'Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors' London 1987, p. 200, illus. 522; Whiteway, Michael and Gere, Charlotte 'Nineteenth-Century Design' London 1993, p. 253, plate 319; and Andrews, John 'Arts and Crafts Furniture' Antique Collectors Club, p. 88, pl. 85.

Maker
The Guild of Handicraft
Designer
Charles Robert Ashbee
Period
Arts & Crafts Movement

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