Description
with turned uprights above a rectangular close-nailed Japanese silk panel and cane woven seat, on turned legs linked by stretchers
Dimensions
44cm wide, 100cm high, 44cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Soros, Susan 'The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin', Yale University Press, 1999, p. 94 no. 114; p.104 no. 125
Provenance: Collection of Roderick Gradidge. Roderick Gradidge AA Dipl. ARIBA was a prominent British architect and writer on architecture, former Master of the Art Workers Guild and campaigner for a traditional architecture.
Note: This chair is one of the many variants produced by William Watt after the original dining chair designed for Dromore Castle, Ireland in 1869.
They were made in oak or with an ebonised finish as with this example. The model was still in production in 1877 when it appeared in Watt's catalogue as a chair suitable for the library and prices at £4.4s.0d.