Description:

A SET OF THREE OAK 'ABINGWOOD' ELBOW CHAIRS AFTER THE DESIGN BY GEORGE WALTON
Circa 1900, probably by William Birch, one impressed with a journeyman's initials J.M

Each with a narrow tapering back pierced with a heart-shaped hand-hold above the flat bow-back arms and original drop-in rush seat, on turned supports with swelling ringed centres united by peripheral stretchers
Each 101cm high, 64cm wide, 56cm deep

OTHER NOTES:
George Walton (1867–1933) introduced his 'Abingwood' chair in 1895/6 in his fitting out of John Rowntree & Sons' café in Scarborough and used it again a year later in his scheme for Kate Cranston's tea rooms in Buchanan Street, Glasgow (the decoration of which Walton famously delegated to his friend Charles Rennie Mackintosh).

As was common with successful original designs of the period, Walton's 'Abingwood' was reproduced by commercial makers and retailers including Liberty & Co. in variant forms for the wider market (including an upholstered version called the 'Abingdon').

The present chairs were probably made by the leading maker William Birch of Hugh Wycombe who made chairs for Liberty's and others. While Walton's original 'Abingwood' design had square-section supports throughout and shorter elbow rests which projected freely with no support to the front, the present chairs' turned supports and front stretcher with swelling ringed centres and club feet is near-identical to that of the elbow chair version of Birch's best-known chair for Liberty's.

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