Scandinavian modern arts and crafts Sussex style teak armchair.

Arts & Crafts ‘Sussex’ chair. Made using ebonised ash and beech woods. with new traditionally rushed seat. This chair was named ’The Madox’ after Ford Madox Brown...

I actually don't want to sell this piece before I know what it is.

Good English Arts and Crafts period armchair, the shaped crest over slatted back, the arms similarly slatted, standing on square legs on original brass and ceramic castors, the uphol...

An original Arts & Crafts piece attributed to Morris & Co established in 1875. The turned wood frame is solid Ebonized beech. The chair will be shipped overseas in a custom made ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely very rare and collectable William Morris Rush seat Sussex armchair circa 1870-1880 as seen in the Victorian and Albert museum The History This chair was named after a country chair found in Sussex, which inspired the design with the turned frame and rush seat. Similar types of chairs, with imitation bamboo frames and rush seats, were fashionable between 1790 and 1820. Ownership & Use William Morris and his wife, Jane, used Sussex chairs in their first home, Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent, from 1860 and subsequently in their London house, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith. Morris's great friend, the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) had Sussex armchairs in his studio, as did the sculptor, Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934). Robert Edis recommended this chair as 'excellent, comfortable and artistic' in his influential book, 'Decoration and Furnishing of Town Houses in 1881'. Examples from the Sussex range were supplied for students' rooms at Newnham College...

Armchair in walnut-stained beech, in the style of Eric Merthen, Sweden in the 1960s, the armchair has been restored and re-upholstered in light blue velvet.