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100 British chairs / One hundred British chairs edited by Adam Bowett. - 143 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Includes indexes.

The British Chair / by Adam Bowett -- Panel-back chairs, c.1540-1680 -- Chairs, c.1600-1740 -- Banister-back chairs, c1720-50 -- Giles Grendey chairs, c.1735-45 -- Upholstered chairs, c.1715-45 -- Windsor chairs, c.1760-1820 -- Historicist chairs, c.1820-1900 -- Gothic revival chairs, c.1840-80 -- Morris & Co. chairs, c.1860-90 -- Aesthetic movement chairs, c.1870-85 -- Arts and crafts chairs, c.1885-1930, the venacular tradition -- Arts and crafts chairs, c.1895-1905, C.F.A. Voysey -- Arts and crafts chairs, c.1885-1905, towards modernism -- John Makepeace chairs, c.1990 -- Index -- Materials, finishes, marks.

This book introduces a selection of chairs from two private collections of British decorative arts in the United States, with a few additions from other sources."--Page 7.

ISBN: 1851497978 9781851497973

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Chairs--History.--Great Britain
Chairs--History--Great Britain--Pictorial works.
Chairs--Design and construction.--Great Britain
Chairs--Design and construction--Great Britain--Pictorial works.
Chairs.
Chairs--Design and construction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.
Pictorial works.

LC Class. No.: NC590 / .F76 1910