Lot 94
ATTRIBUTED TO ALFRED WATERHOUSE (1830-1905) FOR HENRY CAPEL, LONDON
'CAIRO' LOW ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1875
Auction: Design Since 1860 Day One | Wed 14th October | Lots 1 to 245
Description
oak, with upholstered seat
Dimensions
58cm wide, 80cm high, 50cm deep
Footnote
An advertisement or show card for Henry Capel’s Art Furniture of around 1875 illustrates this chair priced at £9. Henry Capel was one of several furniture manufacturers who specialised in 'art furniture'. Capel worked particularly closely with Alfred Waterhouse, producing furniture and fittings for over 30 of Waterhouse's buildings. He is recorded as working throughout the 1870s and exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878.