£3,750
Auction: Design Since 1860
ebonised wood, with caned seat, back and arm panels, and with later cushions upholstered in period fabric circa 1880
Literature: Soros, Susan The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin, Yale 1999, p. 96, no. 116 and p. 88, no. 107, where this armchair is illustrated.
Provenance: Paul Reeves, London
Property from an Important Private Collection
Note: An easy chair version of the wicker chair that Godwin designed for his own use in 1867, and later for Dromore Castle.