Quaker chairs with a story? - preview
A client came to me with three chairs that she had rescued They had loose joints, broken seats and splintered edges; ‘not worth mending, better got rid of’, she had been told They were large heavy oak chairs in the Arts and Crafts style Very little English furniture is signed but inside these chairs had some very unusual carved marks with dates
At the time I had just been asked by the Friend to review an unusual biography of a Quaker furniture maker, Stanley Webb Davies (SWD) I recognised the carvings as being similar to those in the book So were they genuine or were they reproductions? They came from Friends House and were dated 1926, the year Friends House opened Could they have been made for Friends House and were they interesting ‘historic’ chairs?
Roland Carn
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