Lot 312
HARRY NAPPER FOR NORMAN & STACEY
PAIR OF SIDE CHAIRS, CIRCA 1901
Auction: 5 November 2008 at 11:00 GMT
£1,750
Description
beech and elm, each with curved top rails above spindle filled tall backs, on solid seats with slightly curved front rails, raised on square section legs, tapering and flared to the feet (2)
Dimensions
129cm high x 56cm wide x 46cm deep
Footnote
Note: Norman and Stacey Ltd are known to have produced some of Harry Napper's furniture designs and he exhibited at the 1902 Turin International Exhibition. These chairs were almost certainly produced for the 'Officers Ideal Quarters', shown at the Earls Court Military Exhibition in 1901.
Literature; Pauline Agius 'British Furniture 1880-1905', Suffolk 1978, page 119