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A Passion for English Design in Brazilian Colonial SeatingCarlton Hobbs LLC This pair of José I jacaranda side chairs is an example of fashionable Anglophile taste in eighteenth century colonial Latin America by way of Portugal,…
February 14 2012, 10:27am | Comments »
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Inventive Vienna in the Biedermeier EraCarlton Hobbs LLC. This set of four side chairs is an example of the typically “modern” inventive Viennese design of the early 19th century. They are constructed in…
November 9 2011, 4:49pm | Comments »
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A Pair of Neoclassical Armchairs, and Its Many HomesThis pair of Italian armchairs (originally form a set of 4), circa 1800, was once owned by illustrator and doll maker, Rose O’Neil (1874-1844). Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,…
February 1 2011, 4:34pm | Comments »
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June 15 2010, 1:27pm | Comments »
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Sitting on Family HistoryThis chair belongs to a group of seating furniture known as “Vierlander” chairs. These chairs originated in Prussia in the 18th century in the province of Vierlande in…
April 8 2010, 2:52pm | Comments »
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Musical Chairs!Highly unusual lyre-back armchair. English, circa 1795. Carlton Hobbs LLC. The use of the form of the ancient lyre in the square back of a chair was an…
March 9 2010, 7:40pm | Comments »
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July 17 2009, 4:47pm | Comments »
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