Arts & Crafts High-Spindle Back Elbow Chair in Oak and Elm, c.1890 educational_art including surface marks and rubbing

including surface marks and rubbing to the arms and legs

Structurally solid with excellent patina throughout

A beautifully made piece

the frame is decorated with finely cast floral ornament beneath layers of aged cream paint

Arts & Crafts High-Spindle Back Elbow Chair in Oak and Elm, c.1890 educational_art including surface marks and rubbingA beautifully proportioned late Victorian to Edwardian Arts & Crafts high back elbow chair, c. 18901910, crafted in solid oak with steam bent elm arms. The design draws on traditional Windsor forms, elevated with a tall crest rail, slender turned spindles, and wonderfully sculptural curved arm supports. This piece has been sympathetically restored, with the old varnish carefully removed, the timber lightly refined and newly waxed to enhance the grain