Arts & Crafts rare pair of ladder back oak armchairs

With rush seats

By Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens

Circa 1902

Height 98cm Width 61cm Depth 50cm

POA

Lutyens was a designer and architect and this chair was designed in 1902 for Edward Hudson, the Editor of Country Life magazine and was made in High Wycombe. Lutyens also designed a house for Hudson, Deanery Garden in Berkshire and he used the same chair design for Little Thakeham in W Sussex.

(Courtesy of the V&A)

See Reference Houses & Gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens p315 fig 550 for a similar rush bottomed settee