Lot 359
GEORGE HENRY WALTON (1867-1933)
PAIR OF 'ABINGWOOD' OAK ARMCHAIRS, CIRCA 1900
Auction: 3 April 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
each with broad open arms and tapered splats with heart-shape piercings, above rush seats on square tapering legs linked by stretchers (2)
Dimensions
69cm wide, 81cm high, 46cm deep
Footnote
Literature: Moon, Karen 'George Walton: Designer & Architect', pub. Oxford 1993, pp.47-56, illus. plates 55 and 64.
Note: Chairs of this design were supplied by George Walton to the Billiard Room of Miss Cranston's Buchanan Street Tearooms in 1896. By this time he was running a successful decorating business, Walton & Co., and had originally designed and supplied chairs of this type to Rowntree's Cafe in Scarborough in 1895. The chair designs for the cafe were based on the French caquetoire style, popular in Scotland in the 17th century. The flattened curved arms and elongated tapering backs are considered some of the most distinctive of Walton's designs.