furniture - Melbourne Chair Company
Pub chair. In the English form, it was a Windsor chair, not unlike a captain's or bow back chair, and sometimes known as a smoker's bow. The Australian pub chair has a decorative cast iron frame and wooden seat, with the weight of the cast iron presumably to deter patrons from using it as a missile or weapon.
Tub chair. A low easy chair, usually with a rounded back, padded on top and supported by spindles, which forms the arm rest. The term is also applied to many small comfortable upholstered lounge chairs.
Melbourne Chair Company. The Melbourne Chair Company made wooden cottage chairs, with spindle backs, featuring Australian motifs pressed into the top rail. The three most common designs were: the kangaroo back with banksia flowers (registered number 252), the emu back with ferns and gum flowers (registered number 253), the lyrebird back with ferns and the Sturt desert pea (registered number 254). There is a fourth design featuring the Australian coat of arms, but this is very scarce.
The Melbourne Chair Company, is still in business under the trade name Melchair Pty Ltd. The so-called Federation chairs were made from about 1906 until the 1930s, although reproductions are now on the market, including carver and high chairs. Some of the original machines in fact are still in use, but the dies used to press the famous backs have been replaced.
Tasmanian blackwood was used for the turned legs and spindles, the seats were usually of kauri pine, sometimes saddled, sometimes caned, and the backs were pressed from hoop pine. When finished, the chairs were dipped in varnish. more...
The Melbourne Chair Company, is still in business under the trade name Melchair Pty Ltd. The so-called Federation chairs were made from about 1906 until the 1930s, although reproductions are now on the market, including carver and high chairs. Some of the original machines in fact are still in use, but the dies used to press the famous backs have been replaced.
Tasmanian blackwood was used for the turned legs and spindles, the seats were usually of kauri pine, sometimes saddled, sometimes caned, and the backs were pressed from hoop pine. When finished, the chairs were dipped in varnish. more...
6 item(s) found:
An early Victorian Japanned ladies chair with handmade cane seat inlaid with mother of pearl. Paper label affixed 'Rocke and Co' Melbourne
A fine Victorian Irish walnut music chair with padded back, the apron with carved foliate on cabriole supports with hand embroidered tapestry. Provenance purchased from the notable 20th century Melbourne antique dealer, Danuta Rogowski
Set of eight Arts & Crafts high back side chairs, Melbourne
Clement Meadmore, six high back dining chairs, manufactured by Mich'l Hirst, Melbourne, black and white coated steel rods, loose vinyl seat cushions
An Australian Art Deco dining suite, circa 1930, retailed through Ackman's Ltd.…
A set of six 19th century Australian colonial blackwood dining chairs each with Crown top curved splat on cabriole supports, maker Paxton & Allan Collins Street Melbourne