£1,750
Hints on Household Taste : Paul Reeves | 700
Auction: 28 June 2022 at 11:00 BST
ebonised beech, with rush seat
Note: Morris & Co.’s celebrated Sussex chair was originally designed around 1860 and sold in large numbers from the late 1860s. The form of this immensely popular piece takes its inspiration from a late-Georgian armchair discovered in Sussex, which is particularly visible in the turned frame and rush seat. The artist, Ford Madox Brown, was one of the original partners in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., the firm founded by William Morris and his friends in 1861. Although not known as a furniture designer, it is thought he suggested this version of the Sussex range, which was also sold as a side chair.