A REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY STEP ARMCHAIR, after a design by Morgan & Saunders

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY STEP ARMCHAIR, after a design by Morgan & Saunders
With curved bar toprail and horizontal splat with moulded scroll arm supports and padded button seat opening to reveal steps inset with carpeting on sabre legs
the back 33½in. (85cm.) high, 22in. (56cm.) wide, 34in. (61cm.) deep

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. This lot is subject to Collection and Storage Charges.

拍品專文

The design of this metamorphic armchair library steps corresponds very closely to the design first published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, in July 1811 and captioned 'This ingenious piece of furniture is manufactured at Messrs. Morgan and Sander's, Catherine-St. Strand' (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture & Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p. 60, pl.29) This chair was 'considered the best and handsomest article ever yet invented, where two complete pieces of furniture are combined in one - an elegant and truly comfortable armchair and a set of library steps'.