South African Design: Past & Present
Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025
Cape Interiors: Furniture, Metalware, Silver & Glass
About the SessionThis sale traces the heritage of South African design across centuries of creative expression highlighting diverse design objects through two sessions. Uniting the sessions is a celebration of the versatility of materials - metal, wood, glass, clay, fibre - and how artists and artisans have transformed them over time into works of wonder, rich in both tradition and innovation.
Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000USD 843 - 1 124
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ZAR 15 000USD 843
Location
Cape Town
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A set of five Cape stinkwood dining chairs, 19th century each with plain curved top-rail, above two conforming mid-rails, caned seat, on square-section tapering legs joined by H-shaped stretchers (5)
Notes
Whereas Neo-Classical seating is identified by its vertical back-splats, Cape Regency chairs are recognizable by their horizontal back rails.
There was an overlap in these two style periods and these chairs are an example of the straight rail Regency type with a Neo-Classical underframe and H-stretcher.
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