Rare original CFA Voysey oak Arts & Crafts armchair

Rare original CFA Voysey oak Arts & Crafts armchair

Code: 11082

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Classic iconic oak Arts & Crafts rush seated armchair by arguably the greatest British Arts & Crafts architect; CFA Voysey;
originally designed c1902. One of his best known and most sought after designs.

This is the 3rd one that matched the previous pair we had and sold.

Probably manufactured by FC Nielson.

Voysey illustrated this design and indeed other close variants and can be seen in photographs of many commissions. 
Brighton Art Gallery & Museum have a version with a leather seat from c1906; also the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Other examples are in the collection of Crab Tree Farm in America and also the Detroit Institute of Art.