Chairs. I want to know more.

My beautiful chairs were deconstructed recently – as I posted.

In this state, I noticed they’re stamped with numbers (in the middle of the front piece on the base):

chair 10

chair 16

This intrigues me. I want to know more.

All I know is that their Danish – well, they were bought in Denmark (by Ed from Grandfathers Axe) recently. We think they’re between Art Deco and Modernist … maybe more mid-century, maybe not even Danish.

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I wonder how many were made…
I wonder who the maker was…
I wonder how I can find out more ….

I did a little bit of reading a found a similar shaped chair, perhaps a precedent, attributed to the Scandinavian Art Deco period [here] … but I want to know more!

Update (29th December): I emailed the store with the similar shaped chair and they replied in super-speedy time (how great is that!). Their advice is that my chairs are likely Danish and from around 1930-55. Cool! Though my investigation continues….

Chairs. Deconstructed.

My new favourite home objects are my beautiful chairs … Danish, thought to be 40s or so, perhaps earlier, perhaps on the cross-over between Art Deco and Modernism…

The upholstery is the original, an amazing apple/acid green, gorgeous though difficult to capture in photographs well.

The woodwork is beautiful when the cushions are all off …

my beautiful chairs

They’re low and smaller than you would imagine from the image … I adore them.

Beauty in suburbia

Some more loveliness from inside my gorgeous home … the fully intact original wood hall panelling (at least I’m pretty sure it’s original).

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Could the pattern be any more beautiful?

I have no idea how it’s made … it couldn’t be a thin leaf from one tree right (which is why I used the word ‘pattern’ instead of ‘grain’), so a thick sort of veneer perhaps.

Beauty in the suburbs

Happily my new little object, a plump ceramic from Leah Jackson (which I purchased during the ‘Rock Solid‘ exhibition), has arrived!

It is the new companion to my favourite Katherine Wheeler ‘Stilt cup’ … on my beautiful art deco mantlepiece …

happy little objects

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Ever more beauty in the suburbs

… more accurately, my home

study ceiling

… so deco gorgeous…

Art deco colour

There has been much reading of late, especially of the Art Deco pursuation.

The latest pursuit is the right colour purple, and in fact a broader question of colours faithful to the era …

page 210, Period Decorating (ISBN 1-85029-196-9), Gilliatt

It may be a test for all the various kinds of computer monitors in the world, but the colour on the far left is in fact the most beautiful dark purple…