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.
About this Item
A Cape stinkwood armchair, 19th century
with lattice back, caned seat, on square-section tapering legs
Notes
There are very few examples of the lattice back chair type which falls into the Cape Neo-classical stylistic category. The caning of the seat would suggests that it originated from the town, although there are a few caned country examples.
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