AFTER A DESIGN BY MORGAN AND SAUNDERS, LONDON, CIRCA 1820

The design for this metamorphic armchair corresponds very closely to the design first published in Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts in July 1811 and captioned 'This ingenious piece of furniture is manufactured at Messrs. Morgan and Sanders’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.’