71/12/1-2

This stick-back Windsor chair has splayed legs and a seat made from a solid curved piece of ash. It is accompanied by a semi-circular cushion pad. The natural coloured cover with a design of diagonally crossing brown, black and red lines, was designed by Phyllis Baron and Dorothy Larcher.

1 chair with separate cushion: wood; linen

MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Institute of Agricultural History) – 'Standard museum name: CHAIR AND CUSHION // Accession number: 71/12/1-2 // Classification: DOMESTIC furnishing furniture // Negative number: 60/10341 60/10328-10329 // Acquisition method: gift // Acquired from, date: December 1970 [...] Gloucestershire // Store: // Condition: good // Recorder, date: LCB/JMB 2.2.71/3.3.88 // Description: A stick back chair consisting of a curved support-cum-arm rest through which nine struts pass from the bar at the top of the back to the seat. The top bar has three points at each end and the arm rests finish in a curved end. There are four other struts on each side which connect the arm rests to the seat. The seat is a solid curved piece of wood and the chair has splayed out legs. The chair has been repaired at some time and the back bar strengthened with a metal strip. // The cushion pad is semi-circular in shape and covered with natural coloured linen which has a pattern of diagonally crossing brown, black and red lines. Cover fastened with hooks and eyes and piped on the upped edges. // Dimensions: Chair: height : 110.0 cm, width: 60.0 cm (arms), width: 51.0 cm (seat). Cushion: 38.0 x 46.0 x 5.0 The chair was purchased by Mrs Simmonds either at Broadway or Chipping Camden. // Associated information: // References: Other items from Mrs Simmonds 74/4 & 5, 73/194-207. For correspondence see Acc. Fie No. 70/313-320. [page break] Associated information (continued): The fabric on the chair was designed and printed by Phyllis Barron & Dorothy Larcher. They worked in London & Painswick & knew the Simmonds. See ‘E. Simmonds; A Personal Account’ in the catalogue of the 1980 Exhibition at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. Pattern is one block of 4 lines, in linoleum backed wood, over printed in trellis formation. Other details in Craft Study Centre, Bath, collection on Linen.', MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life): 'A stick back chair consisting of a curved support-cum-arm rest through which nine struts pass from the bar at the top of the back to the seat. The top bar has three points at each end and the arm rests finish in a curved end. There are four other struts on each side which connect the arm rests to the seat. The seat is a solid curved piece of wood and the chair has splayed out legs. The chair has been repaired at some time and the back bar strengthened with a metal strip. The cushion pad is semi-circular in shape and covered with natural coloured linen which has a pattern of diagonally crossing brown, black and red lines. Cover fastened with hooks and eyes and piped on the upped edges. / / Dimensions: Height 110 cm, Max Width 60 cm, Seat Width 51 cm. Cushion 38 x 46 x 5 cm. // Associated information: The chair was purchased by Mrs Simmonds either at Broadway or Chipping Camden. The fabric on the chair was designed and printed by Phyllis Barron & Dorothy Larcher. They worked in London & Painswick & knew the Simmonds. See ‘E. Simmonds; A Personal Account’ in the catalogue of the 1980 Exhibition at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. Pattern is one block of 4 lines, in linoleum backed wood, over printed in trellis formation. Other details in Craft Study Centre, Bath, collection on Linen. / / Today ‘Windsor’ is a generic term for any chair which has both the legs & the uprights wedge into holes bored in a slats seat. Whereas in most other chairs the back legs and back uprights are of one piece, in a Windsor chair they are separate. The first Windsor chairs appear to have been the comb-back type, in which the spindles of the back are topped by a horizontal crest rail. // References: English Country Furniture; The National and Regional Vernacular 1500-1900: David Knell (Barrie & Jenkins, London)', Letter, Craft History editor to Jill Betts, 14 April 1989 – 'I have at last tracked your hand block-printed fabric down to the two ladies: Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher working in London, then Painswick, 20s, 30s (40s and 50s less active).', Letter, Jill Betts to Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, 3 May 1985 – 'Thank you for sending the catalogue of The Simmonds exhibition. I was very pleased to have it for our records. I was interested to see a reference in it to Barron and Larcher who printed textiles. I have recently discovered that the cover on the cushion of the chair that we have, which came from Eve Simmonds, was printed by them.', Citation in publication [I. G. Sparkes, 'English Windsor Chairs' (Princes Risborough : Shire Publications, 1981)] – [image] (pp.9)

Painswick

1900-01-01 - 1949-12-31

Twentieth century, first half

Chair, Cushion

Wood, Fibre, flax