EDWARD GARDINER AFTER DESIGNS BY ERNEST GIMSON
SET OF FOUR OAK 'CLISSETT' LOW BACK CHAIRS, CIRCA 1930
£650
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860
Auction: 25 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
each with three rails to the back above rush seats on turned legs linked by stretchers (4)
Dimensions
46cm wide, 87cm high, 39cm deep
Footnote
Note: Ladderback chairs started to be made across Britain in the seventeenth century. In the 1890s Ernest Gimson adapted and simplified the vernacular chairs he found still being made in the Cotswolds. This chair is his design, however after his death in 1919, production of his furniture was continued by one of the craftsmen at his workshop, Edward Gardiner.